Deirdre Clemente
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Clemente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Clemente |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENTE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7864-658X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Style Conscious Nation Eagerly Awaits
This article considers the role of Chambers of Commerce in promoting and protecting the fashion industries in Miami, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills, and Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century. I demonstrate how the Chambers used sportswear to proactively cultivate a national image as a style mecca in order to lure trend-seeking tourists, business owners, and potential residents. Working alongside government officials, tourism boosters…
Clothing the Contadini
Research Article| July 01 2017 Clothing the Contadini: Migration and Material Culture, 1890–1925 Evan Casey; Evan Casey Evan Casey is a graduate assistant to the Public History Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is working on her MA in American History. She earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science from UNLV and graduated magna cum laude. Casey works as a collections assistant for the Burlesque Hall o…
Inventing Baby Food
Taking candy from a baby is easy. Feeding a baby is not. Amy Bentley begins Inventing Baby Food with a personal anecdote many parents will recognize—that bewildering first walk down the baby food aisle. Bentley then traces the development of the baby food industry and ties it to themes of American consumerism, public health, and food culture. Meticulously researched with sources ranging from company advertisements to industry statistics, Inventin…
Fashioning Appetite
The College Shop
In the college shop, “gushing freshmen” drank “limitless free Cokes” and jukeboxes “play forever without nickels.” These seasonal sections of the ever-evolving department store popped up “all over town during the last weeks of August, like mushrooms after a rain” and disappeared with the first frost. Here, a staff of students sold—and many more bought—casual clothing. The popularity of the shops in the 1930 s reached a fevered pitch in the 1940 s…
What Happens in Vegas
Public historians have much to offer in current and coming debates about sustainability. In Las Vegas, our struggles to contextualize our often-misunderstood place while training our students to take advantage of new opportunities require a little extra effort. We have to start by convincing people that our place has something to offer to serious discussions about sustainability, that Las Vegas is more than simply the example of what not to be. P…
Fashion
Prettier Than They Used to Be”
Brains and beauty? From the pants suit of Wellesley grad Hillary Clinton to the toned arms of Princetonian Michelle Obama, the American public is preoccupied with the physical appearance of highly educated women. This article explores how administrators, publicists, and students at Radcliffe College mounted a half-century-long campaign to convince America that smart girls can be sexy
Caps, Canes, and Coonskins
Creating the Big Easy
Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism 1918–1945. By Anthony J. Stanonis and New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. By J. Mark Souther Deirdre Clemente Deirdre Clemente Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008, Pages 1077–1081, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0028 …
Made in Miami
Journal Article Made in Miami: The Development of the Sportswear Industry in South Florida, 1900–1960 Get access Deirdre Clemente Deirdre Clemente Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 127–148, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0129 Published: 01 October 2007
Striking Ensembles
Social scientists and historians have long recognized the interaction between fashion and social stratification. The present paper examines the clothing worn by women during two important strikes in the labor history of the United States — specifically, the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike in New York City and the wave of strikes in the Southern textile mills during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although separated by a generation and geographic region, b…
Clothing the Contadini
Research Article| July 01 2017 Clothing the Contadini: Migration and Material Culture, 1890–1925 Evan Casey; Evan Casey Evan Casey is a graduate assistant to the Public History Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is working on her MA in American History. She earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science from UNLV and graduated magna cum laude. Casey works as a collections assistant for the Burlesque Hall o…
Striking Ensembles
Social scientists and historians have long recognized the interaction between fashion and social stratification. The present paper examines the clothing worn by women during two important strikes in the labor history of the United States — specifically, the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike in New York City and the wave of strikes in the Southern textile mills during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although separated by a generation and geographic region, b…
Made in Miami
Journal Article Made in Miami: The Development of the Sportswear Industry in South Florida, 1900–1960 Get access Deirdre Clemente Deirdre Clemente Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 127–148, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0129 Published: 01 October 2007
Caps, Canes, and Coonskins
Creating the Big Easy
Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism 1918–1945. By Anthony J. Stanonis and New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. By J. Mark Souther Deirdre Clemente Deirdre Clemente Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008, Pages 1077–1081, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0028 …
Fashion
Prettier Than They Used to Be”
Brains and beauty? From the pants suit of Wellesley grad Hillary Clinton to the toned arms of Princetonian Michelle Obama, the American public is preoccupied with the physical appearance of highly educated women. This article explores how administrators, publicists, and students at Radcliffe College mounted a half-century-long campaign to convince America that smart girls can be sexy
What Happens in Vegas
Public historians have much to offer in current and coming debates about sustainability. In Las Vegas, our struggles to contextualize our often-misunderstood place while training our students to take advantage of new opportunities require a little extra effort. We have to start by convincing people that our place has something to offer to serious discussions about sustainability, that Las Vegas is more than simply the example of what not to be. P…
The College Shop
In the college shop, “gushing freshmen” drank “limitless free Cokes” and jukeboxes “play forever without nickels.” These seasonal sections of the ever-evolving department store popped up “all over town during the last weeks of August, like mushrooms after a rain” and disappeared with the first frost. Here, a staff of students sold—and many more bought—casual clothing. The popularity of the shops in the 1930 s reached a fevered pitch in the 1940 s…
Inventing Baby Food
Taking candy from a baby is easy. Feeding a baby is not. Amy Bentley begins Inventing Baby Food with a personal anecdote many parents will recognize—that bewildering first walk down the baby food aisle. Bentley then traces the development of the baby food industry and ties it to themes of American consumerism, public health, and food culture. Meticulously researched with sources ranging from company advertisements to industry statistics, Inventin…
Fashioning Appetite
Clothing the Contadini
Research Article| July 01 2017 Clothing the Contadini: Migration and Material Culture, 1890–1925 Evan Casey; Evan Casey Evan Casey is a graduate assistant to the Public History Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is working on her MA in American History. She earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science from UNLV and graduated magna cum laude. Casey works as a collections assistant for the Burlesque Hall o…
A Style Conscious Nation Eagerly Awaits
This article considers the role of Chambers of Commerce in promoting and protecting the fashion industries in Miami, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills, and Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century. I demonstrate how the Chambers used sportswear to proactively cultivate a national image as a style mecca in order to lure trend-seeking tourists, business owners, and potential residents. Working alongside government officials, tourism boosters…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Clothing (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works)