Linda Welters is Professor in the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, University of Rhode Island. She is also the Editor-in-chief of 'Dress,' the journal of the Costume Society of America. Patricia Cunningham is Associate Professor in the Department of Consumer and Textile Sciences, Ohio State University.

• The Americanization of Fashion - Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island, and Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University Fashion in the Gilded Age: A Profile of Newport's King Family - Rebecca J. Kelly, Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island Dress and Culture in Greenwich Village - Deborah Saville, University of Rhode Island The Influence of American Jazz on Fashion - Susan L. Hannel, University of Rhode Island The Americanization of Fashion: Sportswear, the Movies and the 1930s - Patricia Campbell Warner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Promoting American Designers, 1940-44: Building Our Own House - Sandra Stansbery Buckland, University of Akron The Onondaga Silk Company's 'American Artist Print Series' of 1947 - Amy Lund and Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island The Beat Generation: Subcultural Style - Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island Space Age Fashion - Suzanne Baldaia, Johnson Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island Dressing for Success: The Re-Suiting of Corporate America in the 1970s - Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University Television and Fashion in the 1980s - Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University, Heather Mangine and Andrew Reilly, Northern Illinois University Flava in Ya Gear: Transgressive Politics and the Influence of Hip-Hop on Contemporary Fashion - Robin M. Chandler, Northeastern University, Boston, and Nuri Chandler-Smith, Executive Director of Blackout Boston

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Award 2006, Costume Society of America This is a strong collection of essays that brings together a very balanced variety of subjects and viewpoints. Its insights into the USA's transition from fashion follower to fashion leader and the influence of American culture on the wider fashion world not only make interesting reading but would make a good supplement to general histories of American fashion. Deirdre Murphy, Costume