This forms part of a series designed for those who need reference material on the history of dress, using a series of illustrations as the central part of each book thus giving the reader an idea of what was worn and how. The clothes are described, explained, interpreted and arranged in date order. Each illustration is captioned in a consistent way under the labels "head", "body" and "accessories". The reader may need to know whether a certain style was fashionable or unfashionable at a certain time, usual or unusual - such information is clearly and consistently laid out. An introduction outlines the broad developments of dress in the eighteenth century. The text should be of interest to students, designers and collectors.

The Eighteenth Century (A Visual History of Costume)

Arts & Photography

Aileen Ribeiro

Decorative Arts & Design

Chrysalis Books

<p>pp. 159, b/w and color photographs</p>

Fashion in the French Revolution

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

The Visual History of Costume

The core of the book consists of over 200 contemporary illustrations of dress, arranged in order of date for easy reference. They include paintings, drawings, photographs, advertisements, stone effigies and brass rubbings. A detailed introduction sets out the background to the evolution of clothing over the centuries, the broad changes themselves, and some guidance on how to look to contemporary sources for information on costume history.

Valerie Cumming

Court and Conquest: Ottoman Origins & the Design for Handel's "Tamerlano" at the Glimmerglass Opera

Court and Conquest: Ottoman Origins and the Design for Handel's "Tamerlano" at the Glimmerglass Opera

Jean L. Druesedow

Performing Arts

Kent State Univ Museum

This study of the role of costume in portraiture, illustrated in colour throughout, takes 100 examples from the National Portrait Gallery's collections, ranging from the magnificence of the Tudor monarchs to the often understated yet equally telling costume of the 1990s, and through them explores the purpose and original context of the dress in which each sitter chose to be recorded. Each portrait is complemented by related works of art and other contemporary images, together with specially commissioned photographs of original surviving examples of costume. The text encourages the viewer and reader alike to a new understanding and appreciation of one of the most attractive aspects of the hidden history of some of the best-known images of the last 500 years.

The Gallery of Fashion

National Portrait Gallery Publications