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Documents, decade-by-decade, what women wore in nineteenth and twentieth century Texas and shares period photographs, advertisements, and museum collection garments. Calico Chronicle is the source book for teachers, students, historians, customers, reenactors, or history buffs searching for costume history of the Texas Frontier and the American West--an area which has had scarce documentation, verbal or visual. Author Betty J. Mills has fitted together priceless pieces of the past found in excerpts from letters, diaries, oral histories, historic journals, and even police blotters, to compile an account that reveals much about the lifestyles of frontier women. With foldout Pictorial outline of womens costume 1830-1910. Many illustrated sketches, photos of accessories catalogues, magazines. patterns, sewing machine, old irons,Chatelaine decorative accessory,
1985 Texas press, old neat illustrated lovely hardback book with dustcover of Texas with few stamps and card. Clean pages, well-binded, dust cover has wear and few tears no paperloss 191 pages including index.
