| Description |
xiii, 607 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 591-594. |
| Contents |
Includes index. |
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The origin of clothing -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Bronze Age in Denmark -- Crete and Greece -- Etruscans and Romans -- The Byzantine Empire -- Western Europe to the twelfth century -- Twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The fourteenth century -- Men's costume of the fifteenth century -- Women's costume of the fifteenth century -- High renaissance: men's costume of the sixteenth century -- Women's costume of the sixteenth century -- The Baroque period: men's costume of the seventeenth century -- Women's costume of the seventeenth century -- Eighteenth-century fashions for men -- Women's costume pf the eighteenth century -- Men's wear in the nineteenth century -- Women's fashions of the nineteenth century. |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Payne, Blanche, 1897-1972. History of costume. New York, Harper & Row [1965] (OCoLC)580922927 |
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