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    When the girls came out to play : the birth of American sportswear / / Patricia Campbell Warner.
     
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    Author: 
    Warner, Patricia Campbell, 1936-
    Title: 
    When the girls came out to play : the birth of American sportswear / / Patricia Campbell Warner.
    Publisher: 
    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2006.
    Description: 
    xxii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Electronic Version: 
    Table of contents  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003037.html
    Bibliography Note: 
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-278) and index.
    Contents: 
    Factors of change -- Women move out-of-doors : croquet and skating -- Taking up tennis -- Bathing and swimming : seeking a "sensible costume" -- Women enter the Olympics : a sleeker swimsuit -- Bicycling and the bloomer -- Trouser wearing : early influences -- The rise of interest in exercise for women -- Innovation at Wellesley : a uniform for crew -- The debut of the gym suit -- Taking exercise clothes to new places : women biologists at Woods Hole -- The merging of public and private : sportswear and the American style.
    Subject: 
    Sport clothes for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
    Sports for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocm63660242
    ISBN: 
    1558495495 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    1558495487 (library cloth : alk. paper)
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    GT1855 .W37 2006NMAH Costume39088900550393Checked out04/15/2025Request Copy
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