By Philip Steele

The 19th Century presents a concise account of the big variety of dress and style created in this interval. Spanning the backwoodsmen of Tennessee to the Southern Belles of the Deep South, this quantity covers a large spectrum of fabric.

Chapters profile new frontiers within the Americas, 19th-century Canada, the 1st peoples, French and Anglo trappers and fishermen, the Canadian Pacific railroad staff, and the whaling of recent England, in addition to farmers, cowboys, ranchers, and buffalo hunters. a piece at the a ways West appears to be like at local americans of the Northwest, California, the nice Basin and plateau states, in addition to the Mormons and Forty-niners. Latin American assurance contains the Gauchos of Argentina, the Portuguese, Creole and African populations, in addition to the army and freedom combatants. insurance dedicated to international locations and costumes of mainland Europe seems at France and the Napoleonic type, the royal courts of Spain and Portugal, the Italians and Greeks, and the models of Russia, Poland, and Germany.

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Htm A history of textiles. html Bissonnette on Costume Time Search: the Nineteenth Century. htm Has a huge and useful range of links. html Costume page: ethnic and folk costume links. htm Regency and Empire clothing links. html The Regency Fashion Page.

Skirts were made from coconut palm fronds, pandanus, and 58 The Maori people of New Zealand were of Polynesian descent. They wove many different fibrous plants to make cloth, including harakeke, a local flax-like plant, stripping out the fiber from the stem with a shell. Warriors wore white feathers in their topknots and tattooed their faces in intricate, swirling patterns. In the 1800s, an increasing number of European whalers, outlaws, seafarers, and traders settled in New Zealand. The British declared the islands part of their empire in 1840, and settlers poured in to farm sheep and mine gold.

In the Arab lands controlled by the Ottoman Turks, traditional dress remained as it was since the Middle Ages, suited to the hot climate and Muslim dress codes which emphasized modesty. Women wore ankle-length dresses and, in most regions, a veil. Persian Dancers Many ancient Persian (Iranian) dance traditions were lost over the ages because of foreign invasion and Muslim codes of modesty. However, dance did thrive at the royal court in the nineteenth century, when Persia was ruled by the Qajar dynasty.

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