Madge Garland (1898–1990)

Excellent. Fashion through many centuries, cultural study, textile/design history, art book, useful refernce, with the bonus of a glossary defining the likes of cache-folies, suffibulum, and hurluberlu. The final section, by a Vogue editor, falls markedly short of the standard of previous ones by J. Anderson Black which are logically arranged, admirably selective, highly informative, and enormously interesting. But the superb illustrations--profuse, very well-chosen, large enough to see details in--and the meatiness of the rest of the book make up for that.

(It's the 1975 edition I read, not the revised one issued in the 80s.)
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