Fashion Fads through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context

Perfect for any reader interested in fashion, history, or popular culture, this text is an essential resource that presents vital information and informed analysis of key fashion fads not found elsewhere.

• Provides high school and college students with interesting information about the direct connections between fashion trends and history that is not available elsewhere in a scholarly source

• Presents a multi-dimensional approach to understanding the ever-changing fads in the world of fashion, allowing students to recognize the meaning behind clothes and better think critically about what is presented to them through their peers and celebrity culture or sold to them by advertisers

• Offers readers easy access to original source material

• Supports the national social studies standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7, which requires students to integrate information from diverse sources into an essay on American history