Linzy Brekke
Linzy Brekke in an associate professor of history at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
Brekke, Linzy
Brekke, Linzy
lbrekke@stonehill.edu
United States of America
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“To Make a Figure”: Clothing and the Politics of Male Identity in Eighteenth-Century America
Linzy Brekke
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
​O​N 29 JANUARY 1789, President-elect George Washington asked his friend General Henry Knox to procure some “American Broad Cloths” advertised in the New York Daily Advertiser...
Author
Linzy Brekke
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.225-244
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20184
Chapter subject tags:Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th centuryClothing and dress--United States--History--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--United States--History--18th centuryWashington, George, 1732-1799Material culture--United States--18th centuryFranklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826