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This category describes traditional and historic American clothing. Modern American clothing should be categorised under American fashion or Clothing companies of the United States Subcategories
The United States of America has generally followed, and in some cases led, trends in the history of Western fashion. It has some unique regional clothing styles, such as western wear . Blue jeans were popularized as work clothes in the 1850s by Levi Strauss , an American merchant of German origin in San Francisco, and were adopted by many ...
Traditional Native American clothing is the apparel worn by the indigenous peoples of the region that became the United States before the coming of Europeans. Because the terrain, climate and materials available varied widely across the vast region, there was no one style of clothing throughout, [1] but individual ethnic groups or tribes often had distinctive clothing that can be identified ...
Non-Native companies and individuals have attempted to use Native American motifs and names in their clothing designs. [87] As early as the 1940s, Anglo designers in the United States had developed a type of one and two-piece dresses called "squaw dresses." [88] These outfits were based on Mexican and Navajo skirts and Western Apache camp ...
Icons such as Stetson, Pendleton, and many upstarts are resisting the lure of cheaper labor overseas to manufacture in the U.S. Find apparel, accessories, shoes, boots, and more on our list.
[7] Aguayos are clothes woven from camelid fibers with geometric designs that Andean women wear and use for carrying babies or goods. Inca textiles. Awasaka was the most common grade of weaving produced by the Incas of all the ancient Peruvian textiles, this was the grade most commonly used in the production of Inca clothing. Awaska was made ...
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
Pages in category "Clothing brands of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 341 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .