British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820 (Dover Fashion and Costumes) [Paperback]

Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 13, 2001 | Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes

Hard-to-find classic drew on primary sources — actual costumes, illuminated manuscripts, effigies, etc. — to provide authentic detailed coverage of what people wore in Britain from the early Saxon period (ca. A.D. 460) to the reign of King George III (1820). Clothing of commoners, royalty, and ecclesiastics. Indispensable for fashion historians.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (September 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486418138
• ISBN-13: 978-0486418131
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,722,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining gallery of mistakes, November 9, 2003

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This review is from: British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820 (Dover Fashion and Costumes) (Paperback)

I just attended one of Robin Netherton's lectures about the accumulation of interpretation errors in early costume research during the Victorian years -- how one author would make a mistake, and that would be picked up by another author copying the first, and more mistakes laid on (with the best of intentions.) This book was presented as one of the most entertaining of these mistakes, because although the author used the at-the-time new photo printing technologies, she didn't use it for original sources (manuscript illustrations, etc) but for pictures of contemporary models in her interpretations of medieval clothing. The results are extremely funny. I expect similar problems with the other eras covered. I am ordering this book for its humor value and because I'm a medieval hat fanatic.