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Entertaining gallery of mistakes,
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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.
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British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820 (Dover Fashion and Costumes) by Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown (Paperback - September 13, 2001)
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