num_pages: 167
description: Minoan ladies Scythian warriors Roman and Sarmatian merchants prehistoric weavers gold sheet figures Vikings Medieval saints and sinners Renaissance noblemen Danish peasants dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how why and from what sources the costumes were reconstructed. The seventeen contributors come from a variety of archaeologists historians curators with ethnological and anthropological backgrounds designers a weaver a conservator and a scholar of fashion in cinema are all specialists interested in ancient or historical dress who wish to share their knowledge and expertise with students hobby enthusiasts and the general reader. The anthology is also recommended for use in teaching students at design schools.Table of ContentsIntroduction by the EditorsHaute Couture in the Bronze A History of Minoan Female Costumes from Thera ( Marie-Louise B Nosch )You are What You Scythian Costume as Identity ( Margarita Gleba )On the Borders of East and West: A Reconstruction of Roman Provincial and Barbarian Dress in the Hungarian National Museum ( Ilona Hendzsel Eszter Istvnovits Valria Kulcsr Dorottya Ligeti Andrea vari and Judit Psztkai-Sze?ke )A Weaver's Making Reconstructions of Danish Iron Age Textiles ( Anna Nrgaard )Iconography and Costume from the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia ( Ulla Mannering )Tools Textile Production and Society in Viking Age Birka ( Eva B Andersson )Spotlight on Medieval Scandinavian Sources and Interpretations ( Kathrine Vestergaard Pedersen )Tailored The Use of Renaissance and Baroque Garments as Sources of Information ( Cecilia Aneer )Costume in a Museological Dealing with Costume and Dress from Modern Danish History ( Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen and Helle Leilund )Cut Stitch and Female Dress in the Past 200 Years ( Maj Ringgaard )Ancient Female Costume from Silent Cinema to Hollywood Glamour ( Annette Borrell )Timeline ( Agnete Wisti Lassen )
language: English
title: Dressing the Past
publisher: Oxbow Books