A Guide to Theatre and Dance: Costuming

A resource for costume and fashion historians, textile preservationists, period re-enactors, and history and theater scholars, as well as theater professionals.

An interdisciplinary compendium of information about fashion, with articles on topics as specific as "zoot suit" to as wide-ranging as "globalization." Also includes articles on such topics as footbinding, sweatshops, and body piercing.

Critical essays on fashion cover four time periods: Late Medieval to Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century to today.

This encyclopedia is arranged chronologically, and covers the social significance of dress as well as fashion and the fashion industry. Includes index, bibliography, and glossary.

Offers color plates taken from artworks of various periods to illustrate contemporary dress in historical periods. Useful both for finding out about fashions and for getting a sense of how people of a given period represented themselves.