Download or read book Historic Dress in America, 1800 1870, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Elisabeth McClellan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Dress in America, 1800 1870, Vol. 2 Many books have been written on the houses, the furniture, and the decorations of the century we have so lately seen pass into history, but of the costumes chosen and worn by our im mediate ancestors very little has been recorded in print. Yet, as Mr. Calthrop, the English authority on the history of dress has aptly said, To see our ancestors dressed is to have a shrewd guess as to what they were - as to what they did. The present volume is designed to bring us within the charmed circle of ih timacy and to reveal to us the tastes and fancies, the pursuits and pastimes, of our nineteenth century grandparents. It goes to press with many thanks to the friends who have lent me their ancestral treasures. The scheme of illustration has been to ar range the garments on living models and to copy the hair and accessories from contemporary portraits or old fashion plates. As the first years of the twentieth century have witnessed a re vival of the scant and clinging skirts, the turbans and scarf draperies, of a hundred years ago, we are reminded of the old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.