Costume: From 1500 to the Present Day

By: Series: Pitkin guidesPublication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Pitkin Pictorials, [2009].Description: 32 pages ; 24 x 17.2 cmISBN:
  • 9781841651026 1841651028
LOC classification:
  • GT 580  .B5
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Looks at costume and clothing that have shaped the way we dress from the 1500s to modern day.

Introduction, Tudor Magnificence and Elizabethan Imagery, Children's Dress, Excess, Revolution and Restoration, The Age of Elegance, Underwear up to 1800, Domesticity and the Industry of Fashion, In mourning, Flappers, Modern Women and Radical Fashion, Underwear up to 2000, Glossary.

Abstract:

Costume and clothes are the most visible means we have of expressing ourselves. This title presents the fascinating evolvement of costume and clothes throughout the period from 15th century to the present day.

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