In the Preface of the 5th Edition of Survey of Historic Costume, Tortora and Eubank conclude with the following: "In the history of dress at the beginning of the 21st century, costume might be compared to a constantly moving river.

Drawing on ethnographic knowledge to connect theory & practice, the authors reveal links between material culture, social & economic forces & personal performance to explain clothing choices through time and across cultures.

Korsettets kulturhistorie fra renæssancen til det 20. århundrede

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 ...

In this text, historian Carole Frick traces the beginnings of consumerism to the clothing industry of Renaissance Florence and the elite families who were its principal customers.

By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce.

Examines European dress as it evolved in 18th-century France. The text looks at French dress first from an aesthetic point of view, describing in detail fashionable and everyday clothes.

Describes top trends and designers of the past fifty years, including their social and cultural contexts