Title: coffee table or reference
Product review: I enjoy this addtion to my fashion library mostly for its large full color plates. The text, broadly and briefly summarizes history in general for each period, as well as the fashion specific to it. It includes pictures of ancient frescoes and busts to help illustrate fashions of earlier periods. There are some examples of actual artifacts pictured. Most of the artifacts are jewelry, hair accesories, combs, the odd shift or bit of lace. The bulk of the book uses portrait art and fashion plates to represent the periods. The only photographs are twentieth century. There are not any photos of surviving garments.I would recomend this book to someone who has a general interest in fashion and history. I use it because I do costuming for many different time periods and it's a good "inspiration book", that I can thumb through before I commit to an exact design. I find the chapters on 15th to 18th centuries most helpful.
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