This volume provides a history of human decoration and adornment.

Includes index. Includes chronology. Includes glossary.

The fifteenth century -- Europe in the fifteenth century -- Clothing -- Overview -- Dagging and slashing -- Doublet -- Headwear -- Overview -- Barbe -- Body decorations -- Overview -- Footwear -- Overview -- The sixteenth century -- The sixteenth century -- Clothing -- Overview -- Bases -- Bombast -- Codpiece -- Farthingales -- Gowns -- Aprons and safeguards (box) -- Hose and breeches -- Mandilion -- Ruffs -- Medici collar (box) -- Sleeves -- Headwear -- Overview -- Copotain -- Hair coloring -- Palisades -- Body decorations -- Overview -- Hygiene (box) -- Cordoba leather gloves -- Fans -- Flea fur -- handkerchiefs -- Footwear -- Overview -- Chopines -- Patterns and pantofles -- The seventeenth century -- The seventeenth century -- Decline of sumptuary laws (box) -- Clothing -- Overview -- First fashion publication (box) -- Baldric - Breeches -- Bustle -- Falling and standing bands -- Gowns -- Justaucorps -- Petticoats -- Stomacher -- Waistcoat -- Whisk -- Headwear -- Overview -- Fontange -- Hurly-burly-- Lovelocks -- Tricorne hat -- Wigs -- Body decorations -- Overview -- Canes -- Cravats -- Earstrings -- Fans -- Masks -- Muffs -- Patches -- Footwear -- Overview -- Boots -- High-heeled shoes -- Ice skates -- Shoe decoration -- The eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century revolt -- Clothing -- Overview -- Chinoiserie -- Coats and capes -- Corsets -- Engageantes -- Fashion à la victime -- Knee britches -- Panniers -- Polonaise style -- Robe à la Française -- Robe en chemise -- Incroyables and merveilleuses (box) -- Sack gown -- Trousers -- Headwear -- Overview -- À la belle poule -- Lice, hunger, and hair (box) -- Caps -- Pigtails and ramillies -- Pouf -- Titus cut -- Body decorations -- Overview -- Cameo -- Double watch fobs -- Jabot -- Nosegay -- Parasols -- Paste jewelry -- Reticule -- Snuff boxes -- Walking sticks -- Footwear -- Overview -- Jockey boots -- Slippers -- The nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century industrialization -- Inventions that changed the world of fashion (box) -- Clothing -- Overview -- Charles Frederick Worth industrializes fashion (box) -- Bathing costumes -- The Betsy-- Bloomers -- Blue jeans -- American cowboy (box) -- Coats -- Crinoline -- Dinner jacket -- Ditto suits -- The dandy (box) -- Dresses -- Fur -- Gigot sleeves -- Kashmir shawl -- Pelisse -- Tennis costume -- Headwear -- Overview -- Apollo knot -- Bowler -- Deerstalker cap -- Gainsborough chapeau -- Mustashes -- Sideburns -- Spoon bonnets -- Top hat -- Wigs -- Body decorations -- Overview -- Ascots -- Brooch -- Fobs and seals -- Gloves -- Monocle -- Pocketbook -- Footwear -- Overview -- Boots -- Buttoned shoes -- Slippers -- Tennis shoes.