I thought folks here might be interested in this. Looks like it's due out in February.
Colleen Title: Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England Author: RIBEIRO, AILEEN Price: $65.00 ISBN: 0300109997 Description: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 28cm., cloth, ca 352pp., 80 color, 100 b&w illus. (Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources?poetry, drama, essays, sermons?the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images, she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how it related to Stuart England's cultural climate) ^Available February 2006^. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
