| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. By Rob Schorman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 212 pp. $35.00,ISBN 0-8122-3728-5.)
Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850–1920: Politics, Health, and Art. By Patricia A. Cunningham. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003. xiv, 250 pp. $45.00,ISBN 0-87338-742-2.)
Nineteenth-century dress has given historians trouble. The ways that clothing was made and the styles it took changed significantly, and historians of technology, economics, fashion, business, women, and social change have made many attempts to sort out how dress can help us better understand transformations in industry and society over the course of the century. New works by Rob Schorman and Patricia A. Cunningham press us to think in new ways about fashion, challenging definitions based on irrationality and arguing that fashion's power lies in its capacity to make sense of change for wearers and scholars alike.	. . .

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