(Re)Dressing American FashionA revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes Expanding the history of American fashion, this volume highlights garments that carry material traces of everyday wearers' bodies, such as stains, rips, tears, mending, and signs of hand craftsmanship. In depth examinations of ten case study objectsranging from activist Jae Jarrell's Urban Wall Suit (ca. 1969) to an