num_pages: 192
description: Move over Project Runway. Get ready to chuckle your way through centuries of fashion dos and don'ts! In this humorous and approachable narrative kids will learn about outrageous politically-perilous funky disgusting regrettable and life-threatening creations people have worn throughout the course of human history all the way up to the present day. From spats and togas to hoop skirts and hair shirts why people wore what they did is an illuminating way to look at the social economic political and moral climates throughout history.
language: None
title: Why'd They Wear That?: Fashion as the Mirror of History
publisher: National Geographic Kids