Author : Aileen Ribeiro
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : UCSC:32106016666098
Dress in Eighteenth-century Europe, 1715-1789 by Aileen Ribeiro Pdf
In this beautiful book, Aileen Ribeiro surveys the clothing worn by the middle and upper classes throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and discusses what this meant in terms of social definition and identity. Ribeiro, one of the world's premier historians of dress, also looks at such subjects as developments in retailing and distribution, etiquette, the rise of the dress designer and couturier, the evolution of ready-made clothes, fancy dress and the masquerade.