20,000 years of fashion
Subtitle: the history of costume and personal adornment
By: by François Boucher ; with a new chapter by Yvonne Deslandres.
Contributors: Deslandres, Yvonne.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: H.N. Abrams
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- History
Other titles: Twenty-thousand years of fashion.
Description: "The ways that people have dressed and adorned themselves provide fascinating insights into human history--revealing personality, wealth, religion, social status, occupation, nationality, and much more ... 20,000 Years of Fashion is a definitive study of mankind's efforts to cover, decorate, and improve the appearance of the human body."--Cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 441.
Translation of: Histoire du costume en Occident.
"Published in Great Britain under the title: A history of costume in the West"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.