The guide to historic costume cover

The guide to historic costume

by Karen Baclawski

A guide to surviving items of historical dress in British Museum collections. However since there is more surviving historical costume in this country than anywhere else in the world, it doubles as a dictionary of costume, providing information on where to.

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