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Dressing the Past
About This Book
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from what sources, the costumes were reconstructed. The seventeen contributors come from a variety of disciplines: archaeologists, historians, curators with ethnological and anthropological backgrounds, designers, a weaver, a conservator and a scholar of fashion in cinema, are all specialists interested in ancient or historical dress who wish to share their knowledge and expertise with students, hobby enthusiasts and the general reader. The anthology is also recommended for use in teaching students at design schools.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Maps
- Chapter 1: Haute Couture in the Bronze Age: A History of Minoan Female Costumes from Thera
- Chapter 2: You Are What You Wear: Scythian Costume as Identity
- Chapter 3: “On the Borders of East and West”: A Reconstruction of Roman Provincial and Barbarian Dress in the Hungarian National Museum
- Chapter 4: A Weaver’s Voice: Making Reconstructions of Danish Iron Age Textiles
- Chapter 5: Iconography and Costume from the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia
- Chapter 6: Tools, Textile Production and Society in Viking Age Birka
- Chapter 7: Spotlight on Medieval Scandinavian Dress: Sources and Interpretations
- Chapter 8: Tailored Criticism: The Use of Renaissance and Baroque Garments as Sources of Information
- Chapter 9: Costume in a Museological Context: Dealing with Costume and Dress from Modern Danish History
- Chapter 10: Cut, Stitch and Fabrics: Female Dress in the Past 200 Years
- Chapter 11: Ancient Female Costume: From Silent Cinema to Hollywood Glamour
- Timeline