In your case, I'd use Laver ---
First - because it's cheaper than the others & your students already have a
lot of books to buy.
Second - because it will give good very general overview. In a three/four
week segment of another class, they aren't going to have the time to devote
all their out-of-class time to just your class.
Third - you can, by example, teach them that you can find more sources in
art books and all the other books you mention or bring in or show slides
from. Teasing them with tidbids of more in-depth knowledge will help them
decide to take your more in-depth course next semester.
Kate
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From: "Sylvia Rognstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: What would *you* use? (was Re: [h-cost] Racinet
I think that there are a lot of very good experts in historical costuming
on this list who may very rightly feel that it is almost impossible to
cover all periods in one book and I agree to an extent. It's just that I
keep hearing that over and over after I've explained that I'm teaching a
class in the costume and fashion industries and can only devote a very
small segment of the time to costume history. Next semester when I'm
teaching a class just in costume history naturally I will use more
resources, but now I'm just trying to provide a good overview and I myself
don't have time to pore over lots of books to review my own understanding.
I only found out I was teaching the class 2 weeks before it started.
Sylrog
On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
On Saturday 02 September 2006 12:56 am, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
Since nobody seems to think there is one really good textbook, maybe
I'll consider writing one myself! Of course they are all too general
to people like us who specialize in historical costumes, but sometime
you really need just a good overview, which is what I need now.
Well, but hold on. How much information do you think constitutes "a good
overview"? What would you like to see in such a book? Maybe such a book
exists, but none of us understands what you're looking for so we don't
know
how to respond.
--
Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost
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