History of American Fashion Primary Sources
Historical documents. What clues can you gather about the time, place, players, and culture?
All correspondence, transactions, measurements, and objects discovered in 1989 at the A. & L. Tirocchi dress shop in Providence, Rhode Island (in business from 1915 to 1947).
Statement concerning a proposed bill on protection for fashion design, which the House of Representatives considered during the summer of 2006 (referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary).
A fashion magazine from Maryland, printed in January 1886.
An advertising leaflet for "Young, the Tailor," 1898.
A page out of The Advertising Handbook (1921) on marketing children's clothing.
A business card for the "Fashionable Milliner" (a hat store) in Raleigh, North Carolina, circa 19th century.
A letter from Uriah W. Oblinger in Gove City, Kansas, to his family on May 10th, 1887, in which he discusses purchasing a pair of jeans for $2.00 and two flannel shirts for $2.75 each.