Concise enough to take to performance, this pocket guide to Kabuki provides a wealth of fascinating information about plays, the actors, and their history.

- Who wore a Welch wig? - When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard.

Have you ever wondered why a certain look became such a big hit? Who decides what's hot and what's not? Learn all about trends, styles, and more as you turn through the pages of Fashion Trends.

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.

This study guide is a tool to help students get the most out of Survey of Historic Costume, 6th Edition.

Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated reference work provides biographical/career data for major designers (Adrian, Jean Louis, Edith Head, more). Updated to 1988, with over 400 new film credits. 177 illustrations. Index of 6,000 films.

A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in ...

This 2001 book offers a close reading of literary texts, paintings, textiles, theatrical documents, and ephemera to reveal how clothing and textiles were crucial to the making and unmaking of concepts of status, gender, sexuality, and ...

This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change.

This monograph attempts to revise present ideas of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East.