Main entry:

Payne, Blanche, 1896-1972, author.

Title & Author:

History of costume : from the ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century / Blanche Payne ; drawings by Elizabeth Curtis.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1965]
©1965

Description:

xiii, 607 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-594) and index.
The origin of clothing -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Bronze Age in Denmark -- Crete and Greece -- Etruscans and Romans -- The Byzantine Empire -- Western Europe to the twelfth century -- Twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The fourteenth century -- Men's costume of the fifteenth century -- Women's costume of the fifteenth century -- High Renaissance: men's costume of the sixteenth century -- Women's costume of the sixteenth century -- The Baroque period: men's costume of the seventeenth century -- Women's costume of the seventeenth century -- Eighteenth-century fashions for men -- Women's costume pf the eighteenth century -- Men's wear in the nineteenth century -- Women's fashions of the nineteenth century.

Summary:

Contains the history and illustrations of costumes and accessories from the Ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century.

ISBN:

0060450703
9780060450700

Subject:

Clothing and dress History.
Costume History.
Costume Histoire.
Costume
Clothing and dress
Kleding.
Costumes.
kleding
clothing
geschiedenis
history
industrie
industry
fabricage
manufacture
Clothing

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Curtis, Elizabeth, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 55654
Call No.: ID GT510 REF; ID:90-B4119
Status: Available