TY - BOOK AU - Baumgarten Linda TI - What Clothes Reveal - The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America - The Williamsburg Collection SN - 9780879352530 U1 - 746 PY - 2011/// PB - The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation KW - Costume N2 - Collecting Costumes at Colonial Williamsburg Chapter 1 Costume Old and New Connoisseurship Chapter 2 The Myths and Meanings of Clothing Chapter 3 Homespun and Silk American Clothing Chapter 4 Common Dress Clothing for Daily Life Chapter 5 Cradle to Coffin Life Passages Reflected in Clothing Chapter 6 Tailoring Meaning Alterations in Eighteenth-Century Clothing CONCLUSION Listening to Clothes ER -