The guide to historic costume

About this book

A guide to surviving items of historical dress in British Museum collections. However since there is more surviving historical costume in this country than anywhere else in the world, it doubles as a dictionary of costume, providing information on where to.

Subjects

  • clothing and dress
  • costume, great britain
  • dictionaries
  • dictionnaires
  • fashion
  • histoire
  • kleding
  • kleidung
  • manners and customs
  • mode
  • vêtements