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Selbie, Robert.

The anatomy of costume / Robert Selbie ; illustrated by Victor Ambrus.

[New York] : Crescent Books, [1977]

137 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Looks at historical Egyptian, Greek, and Roman dress, and western costume from the 400's to the present.

Clothing and dress -- History.

Introduction -- Egyptian -- Biblical -- Greek -- Roman -- Byzantine 400-900 -- Romanesque -- Early Gothic 1200-1350 -- Late Gothic 1350-1450 -- Italian Renaissance -- English Tudor -- Elizabethan -- Spanish court dress 16th and 17th centuries -- Dutch 17th century -- King Charles I -- The commonwealth 1649-1660 -- The Restoration -- French 18th century -- The fall of the French Monarchy -- Late Georgian, English and American -- The directory and the first empire -- The Romantic period 1815-1840 -- The crinoline -- The American Civil War -- The bustle -- The pioneer and the Indian. Fin de Siecle -- Turn of the century 1900-1914 -- The Great War 1914-1918 -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The war years 1939-1945 -- The post-war era 1945-1960 -- The sixties and after.

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