{"id":20928,"date":"2023-01-03T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=222328"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:35:08","slug":"power-dressing-the-hidden-value-of-clothes-in-19th-century-america","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/power-dressing-the-hidden-value-of-clothes-in-19th-century-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Power dressing: the hidden value of clothes in 19th-century America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Legal historian Laura F Edwards discusses her new book on clothing and textiles in 19th-century America, <em>Only the Clothes on Her Back<\/em>. Speaking to Elinor Evans, she reveals the meaning and care that went into garments, and how clothes and textiles could lend subversive power to marginalised people.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-222328-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Hiddenpowerclothing-a9a789e.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Hiddenpowerclothing-a9a789e.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Hiddenpowerclothing-a9a789e.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Laura F Edwards is the author of <em>Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/only-the-clothes-on-her-back-clothing-and-the-hidden-history-of-power-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states\/9780197568576?aid=4935&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Only-Clothes-Her-Back-Nineteenth-Century\/dp\/0197568572\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/only-the-clothes-on-her-back\/laura-f-edwards\/9780197568576&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2023 at 12:00 am Legal historian Laura F Edwards discusses her new book on clothing and textiles in 19th-century America, Only the Clothes on Her Back. 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