PATTERNS OF FASHION 4 1540-1660

No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stagedesigners, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, canfunction effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series,published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998,admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for thepromised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and earlyStuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes ofthe same era.Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed byJenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicatedto the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. Itcontains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments inthe explanatory section, as well as patterns for 86 items of linenclothing, which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superbruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifullyproduced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreationof these wonderful garments.