When the girls came out to play : the birth of American sportswear /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations
- Preface
- pt. 1. The influence of fashion
- Introduction : Public clothing for outdoor play
- ch. 1. Factors of change
- ch. 2. Women move out-of-doors : croquet and skating
- ch. 3. Taking up tennis
- ch. 4. Bathing and swimming : seeking a "sensible costume"
- ch. 5. Women enter the Olympics : a sleeker swimsuit
- ch. 6. Bicycling and the bloomer
- pt. 2. The influence of education
- Introduction : Private clothing for physical education
- ch. 7. Trouser wearing : early influences
- ch. 8. The rise of interest in exercise for women
- ch. 9. Innovation at Wellesley : a uniform for crew
- ch. 10. The debut of the gym suit
- ch. 11. Taking exercise clothes to new places : women biologists at Woods Hole
- ch. 12. The merging of public and private : sportswear and the American style
- Notes
- Index.