Horace D. Ballard is the Theodore E. Stebbins Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums, USA. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century US portraiture, colonial men's fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion in the Americas. He has held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Fashioning WashingtonA Representative Inventory of Choices, Comportment, Dress, and Fortune, 1732-1789Part II:The Politics of Style1. Virginia Gent(ee)lman: Coming of Age Amid Sartorial Codes and Cultural Myths2. From Red(coat) to Blue3. Superfine: Blue Cotton Velvet4. William Lee: ‘This I Give Him as A Testimony’5. Drab: Style Amid Slavery6. Countermeasures: Frustrations in Garment Construction and Politics7. The Politics of Mourning8.Beauty and/in Uniformity9. ‘an easy & correct Style’: Tailoring Washington’s Wartime Words10. A Tale of Two Suits11. Of Washington’s Hair and TeethConclusion Index

Horace D. Ballard is the Theodore E. Stebbins Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums, USA. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century US portraiture, colonial men's fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion in the Americas. He has held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Fashioning WashingtonA Representative Inventory of Choices, Comportment, Dress, and Fortune, 1732-1789Part II:The Politics of Style1. Virginia Gent(ee)lman: Coming of Age Amid Sartorial Codes and Cultural Myths2. From Red(coat) to Blue3. Superfine: Blue Cotton Velvet4. William Lee: ‘This I Give Him as A Testimony’5. Drab: Style Amid Slavery6. Countermeasures: Frustrations in Garment Construction and Politics7. The Politics of Mourning8.Beauty and/in Uniformity9. ‘an easy & correct Style’: Tailoring Washington’s Wartime Words10. A Tale of Two Suits11. Of Washington’s Hair and TeethConclusion Index

Horace D. Ballard is the Theodore E. Stebbins Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums, USA. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century US portraiture, colonial men's fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion in the Americas. He has held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Fashioning WashingtonA Representative Inventory of Choices, Comportment, Dress, and Fortune, 1732-1789Part II:The Politics of Style1. Virginia Gent(ee)lman: Coming of Age Amid Sartorial Codes and Cultural Myths2. From Red(coat) to Blue3. Superfine: Blue Cotton Velvet4. William Lee: ‘This I Give Him as A Testimony’5. Drab: Style Amid Slavery6. Countermeasures: Frustrations in Garment Construction and Politics7. The Politics of Mourning8.Beauty and/in Uniformity9. ‘an easy & correct Style’: Tailoring Washington’s Wartime Words10. A Tale of Two Suits11. Of Washington’s Hair and TeethConclusion Index