A three-volume survey of clothing, costume and fashion, presented through 640 essays, arranged alphabetically. Coverage includes the origins of clothing and body adornment, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress, as well as representative costumes from a wide range of historical eras. For students and researchers at the high-school level or higher.

Electronic reproduction.

v. 1. Academic dress to eyeglasses -- v. 2. Fads to nylon -- v. 3. Occult dress to Zoran, index.