Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare: 1564–1616

This book explores fashion during Shakespeare's era, a time when clothing conveyed much more than a personal statement, but was an absolutely accurate indicator of the social status of the wearer, as witnessed in so many Shakespeare plays when character dress, disguise or cross-dressing played pivotal roles in changing plots.

20,000 Years of Fashion The History of Costume and Personal Adornment

Oversized Hardcover tells the story of how people have dressed themselves from the earliest recorded times to modern times. A definitive study featuring each epoch and region, clearly discussed so that the novice can enjoy this volume as well as the scholar. A must for any student of the arts or anyone interested in how fashion has evolved.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume And Fashion: From 1066 to the Present

From the simplicity of eleventh century dress to the excesses of punk, this invaluable work depicts the ever-changing modes of almost one thousand years. Now in an enlarged edition, this volume adds another 500 years to its previous coverage, to include the very beginning of any significant clothing style to appear after A.D. 1000, following through comprehensively with a new series of fashion plates showing the styles of the last few years that have succeeded in establishing themselves.

Elizabethan England (A History of Fashion and Costume)

A History of Fashion and Costume is an eight-volume set that examines the development of costume and fashion over time, from the earliest cave dwellers to the present, along with the social history that gave rise to it. Introducing readers to the rich world of fashion and dress, this set vividly depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends--"from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style--"that led us to the clothing of today.