TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adlington,L.J.
TI  - Stitches in time: the story of the clothes we wear 
SN  - 9781847947260 (hbk.) :
U1  - 391'.009 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - RH Books
KW  - Fashion
KW  - History
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Beauty and Fashion
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Opening this lavishly illustrated book is like stepping in to a dressing room and riffling through drawers and cupboards to pull out the items within. The reader then discovers what these pieces of clothing reveal about aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle through the ages. This a stylish tour of the most important developments and the most interesting oddments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day, and is crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts
ER  -