The Study of Dress History
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: May 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780719040658
Subjects: Costume; Fashion design; History of specific subjects; Clothing and dress in literatu; Art & Art Instruction; Textbooks; Art; History; Fashion; History - General; Art / History / General; Clothing and dress; Collection and preservation
First sentence: DRESS historians who work from a base of analysing surviving dress/textile artefacts are criticised for their 'descriptive' concentration on the minutiae of clothing.