L. Rowland-Warne (1930–2019)

Not a book for someone looking for a serious tome on the history of clothing/fashion, but it really is a fun book for elementary/primary school-age children.

I so loved Eyewitness books as a kid - they were some of the only nonfiction books I spent a lot of time with - and now I remember why. Most of the information is presented in captions, and it's so easy to take in the bite-size pieces of info along with the pictures and illustrations, which really take center stage.

Toddler enjoyed the "big hair" on the cover and the page about shoes.

This is a history of British Costume, not a history of Costume, which is fine, since you couldn't do World Costume in a book this size, but since it's the American edition, and it's intended for kids, it might be nice for it to *say* somewhere that it's British costume only and not leave it to be deduced from context clues.

I think this is a great book to learn about clothes and how they have changed through the years. Along with outstanding photographs, it tells about the uses and development of clothing and accessories. We had fun looking at the clothes from the different eras we were learning about. My only wish would be that it were ordered more by date than type of clothing.