Costume Reference - History of Women's Costume
Chelsea House | 1984 | ISBN: 0713415150 | English | 84 pages | PDF | 14.7 MB


Here the author traces the trends of fashion from the soft drapery of ancient Greece and Roman Britain through the centuries of flowing gowns, close fitting dresses, high waistlines, low waistlines, crinolines and busdes, small hats, extravagant headdresses, through the feminist movement when women copied the prevailing male hard-line fashion wearing tailor-made suits, high stiff collars and ties, to the teagowns of the twenties and the jumper suits of the thirties