The Culture of Clothing
Subtitle: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: Jean Birrell (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780521574549
Subjects: Costume; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; Dress And Costume; Social Science; Sociology; Europe - France; Fashion; General; Art / Fashion; Costume - France - History; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - France; Social Science-General; Customs & Traditions
First sentence: Whilst the last decades of the twentieth century have seen the appearance of museums of fashion, a phenomenon by definition short-lived, historians have yet to think how to write about something other than these sumptuous and insubstantial phantoms.