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RR 2016/151 Survey of Historic Costume (6th edition) Edited by Phyllis G. Tortora and Sara B. Marcketti Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing New York and London 2015 xviii + 702 pp. ISBN 978 1 62892 167 0 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 62892 234 9 (pbck); ISBN 978 1 50139 588 8 (e-book and studio access bundle) £91.80 $140 (hbck); £31.99 $42.95 (pbck); £73.99 $140 (e-book)
Keywords Clothing, Fashion, History
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2016-0048
The historical costume fashion book has a long history that has tended, during past eras, towards inaccuracy (Racinet's and Hottenroth's Victorian images as presented most recently in Leventon (2008)). Modern compendiums of historical fashion, thankfully, are much more rigorous in portraying accurately the details of historic dress, focusing less on the fanciful narrative of dress reminiscent of Herbert Norris and more on its social context and...