Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America - Diana DiPaolo Loren - Bog

Investigates the ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment. Diana DiPaolo examines strategies of combining local-made and imported goods not simply to emulate European elites, but instead to create a language of new appearance by which to communicate in an often contentious colonial world.