Introduction / Patricia Cunningham and Susan Voso Lab -- From moccasins to fr coats and back again : ethnic identity and native American dress in Southern New England / Linda Welters -- Dress for the Ohio pioneers / Carolyn R. Shin -- Nineteenth-century African-American dress / Barbara M. Starke -- The American cowboy : development of the mythic image / Laurel Wilson -- From fo to fashion : dress adaptations of Norwegian immigrant women in the Midwest / Patricia Williams -- Dressing the colonial past : nineteenth century New Englanders look back / Beverly Gordon -- The gym suit : freedom at last / Patricia Campbell Warner -- Simplicity of dress : a symbol of American ideal Patricia A. Cunningham -- ""War"" drobe and World War I / Susan Voso Lab.