Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1

How it all Began

Chapter 2

Greeks and Romans

Chapter 3

Early Europe

Chapter 4

The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 5

The Seventeenth Century

Chapter 6

The Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7

From 1800 to 1850

Chapter 8

From 1850 to 1900

Chapter 9

From 1900 to 1939

Chapter 10

Rationed Fashion to Pluralistic Style

Chapter 11

At the Turn of the Millennium

Chapter 12

Fashion Since 2010

Select Bibliography

Picture Credits

Index