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441 pages : illustrations (part color) folded maps. ; 29 cm |
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Translation of Histoire du costume en Occident. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Costume in the Ancient East -- Crete and its costume -- The Mediterranean countries -- Europe from the fifth century BC to the twelfth century AD -- Europe between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries -- Costume in Europe from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- From the French Revolution to the early twentieth century -- Costume fashions from 1920 -- Conclusion -- General bibliography. |
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Introduction. Prehistoric costume. Races and civilizations -- Trade in prehistoric times -- Prehistoric costume -- Comparative study of prehistoric costume -- Notes, chronology and bibliography -- Costume in the Ancient East. General conditions -- Costume in the valleys and plains -- Sumerian costume -- Costume in Babylon and Assyria -- Survivals of the Kaunakès -- Costume in the coastal countries (Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia) -- Costume in the mountain countries (Cappadocia, Armenia, Caucasus, Iran, Turkestan) -- Costume in the Irano-Indian regions -- Steppe costume -- The general development of costume in the Ancient East -- Notes and bibliography -- Crete and its costume. The setting and the civilization -- Cretan trade -- Cretan costume -- Reciprocal influences -- Notes and bibliography -- The Mediterranean countries. Egypt -- Classical costume in the central Mediterranean -- General characteristics -- Foreign influences -- Greece -- Etruria -- Rome -- Sardinia -- The Iberian peninsula -- North Africa -- Notes and bibliography -- Europe from the Fifth century BC to the Twelfth century AD. The peoples of northern and central Europe -- The La Tène civilization and the first centuries of the Christian era -- The Celts and their costume -- Gaulish and Gallo-Roman costume -- Costume and the great invasions of the Third to Sixth centuries -- Costume in Eastern Europe between the fourth and tenth centuries -- Byzantine costume -- Costume in France under the Merovingians and the Carolingians -- Costume in central and Western Europe from the ninth to eleventh centuries -- Notes and bibliography -- Europe between the Twelfth and Fourteenth centuries. Costume and new conditions of life -- Costume in central and Western Europe -- Notes and bibliography |
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Costume -- History.
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Clothing and dress -- History.
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Fashion -- History.
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Clothing and dress. (OCoLC)fst00864680
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Costume. (OCoLC)fst00880759
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Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Histoire du costume en Occident. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Boucher, François, 1885-1966. Histoire du costume en Occident. English. 20,000 years of fashion. New York, H. N. Abrams [1967] (OCoLC)653033837 |
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