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Costume and fashion : a concise history / James Laver.
- Title
- Costume and fashion : a concise history / James Laver.
- Author
- Laver, James, 1899-
- Publication
- New York : Thames and Hudson, 1995.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- De La Haye, Amy
- Description
- 296 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.
- Summary
- History of clothes and fashion throughout the ages and around the world, discussing the underlying motives of fashion and the ways in which clothes have been used to protect, express identity, attract, or influence others.
- Series Statement
- World of art
- Uniform Title
- World of art
- Alternative Title
- Costume & fashion
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- How it all began -- Greeks and Romans -- Early Europe -- The Renaissance and the sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- From 1800 to 1850 -- From 1850 to 1900 -- From 1900 to 1939 -- Rationed fashion to pluralistic style.
- ISBN
- 0500202664 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^94061062^
- OCLC
- 33983487
- SCSB-11446904
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library