Fashion in History Western Dress, Prehistoic to Present
Second Edition
by Marybelle S. Bigelow

The Second Edition of Fashion in History includes a number of new features. some of these additions are:

• a new chapter on dress of the Mesopotamian era
• expanded information on the lifestyles of differing periods
• many new illustrations
• a pronunciation key
• glossary of terms descriing costume, identifying the country of origin, listing chapter locations, and indicating the correct pronunciation of the work

Contents

1. Origins of Body Coverings and the Mesopotamian Garments (Prehistory - 500 B.C.)
2. Costumes of Ancient Egypt (3700 - 500 B.C.)
3. Dress of Crete (3000 - 1400 B.C.)
4. Garb of the Greeks (1500 - 150 B.C.)
5. Dress of the Etruscans (1300 - 251 B.C.)
6. How the Romans Looked (700 B.C - A.D. 476)
7. Dark Ages and Before (8000 B.C. - A.D. 1000)
8. Elegance of Byzantium (A.D. 330 - 1453)
9. More Medieval Modes (A.D. 1000 -1499)
10. Renaissance Elegance (1400 1600)
11. Opulence of the Baroque (1600 - 1700)
12. Elegance of the Enlightened Age (1700 - 1795)
13. From Revolution to Empire (1790 - 1815)
14. Romanticism and the Industrial Age (1815 - 1870)
15. Impressionism and the Edwardian Era (1870 - 1910)
16. Costumes of the Modern Age of Change (1910 1939)
17. Costume Revolutions of the Recent Past (1940 - 1970)
18. Summary: The Later Years Coupled to the Past

Glossary
Index

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