The complete costume dictionary
Elizabeth J. Lewandowski (Author), Dan Lewandowski (Illustrator)
"While a number of costume and fashion dictionaries are tied to specific countries or periods, none are comprehensive. In The Complete Costume Dictionary, Elizabeth J. Lewandowski has consulted a variety of sources, including costume history texts, journal articles, historical publications, autobiographies, biographies, and foreign language dictionaries--as well as contemporary publications--to create a resource that spans the globe, from the earliest record of fashion to the twenty-first century. Containing more than 20,000 fashion and costume terms, this volume also features more than 250 black-and-white and 50 color illustrations. The first section is an alphabetical listing of terms with definitions, periods, and countries of origin. This book also contains appendixes that list the terms by country of origin, period, and type of clothing. Moving beyond the Western world, the book includes both archaic and current terminology. Significantly greater in scope than anything currently available--online or in print--this one-of-a-kind publication is an invaluable resource for costume and fashion historians, textile preservationists, period re-enactors, and history and theatre scholars, as well as theatre professionals."--from the back cover
Print Book, English, 2011
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2011