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Byers’ Choice continues to produce Salvation Army Carolers and donates a portion of the proceeds from their sale to the organization. Byers’ Choice has also collaborated with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to create a line of pieces depicting characters from Revolutionary-era Virginia which are sold by the foundation and other ...
Vaillancourt Folk Art and Byers' Choice partnered in 2012 to introduce Byers' Choice Caroler, designed in collaboration with another company. [47] The piece, Custom Christmas Artist Caroler, was introduced during the 17th annual Collector's Weekend at the Vaillancourt Studio by Bob Byers, Jr., President of Byers' Choice. [48] [49]
Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing designs, loved by the Rococo artistic trends of the period. The French and English styles of fashion were very different from one another.
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Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5; Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09580-5; Black, J. Anderson and Madge Garland: A History of Fashion, Morrow, 1975. ISBN 0-688-02893-4
At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court dress in its formality.