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'20,000 Years Of Fashion' is a definitive study of mankind's efforts to cover, decorate, and improve the appearance of the human body.

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Publishers Weekly Review

This scholarly, absorbing history of dress, an updated edition of a 1966 reference work, ranges from prehistoric costume through present fashion. From antiquity to the 14th century, costume was generally long, loose and draped, not nationalistic in character, and reflected magical and religious functions. From the 14th century, when costume became short and fitted, to the 19th century, clothing acquired personal and national characteristics. The third fashion phase, under the influence of industrial mass-production and European expansionism, beginning in the mid-19th century and continuing to the present, is less personal and more international, although there are also exclusive haute-couture designs for moneyed clientele. Readers will delight in the superior 1188 illustrations, including 356 full-color plates, that feature a bell-shaped, skirted terracotta idol from the eighth century B.C., sixth century B.C. funerary stele of the warrior Ariston, late 13th century Sicilian silk cloth, 17th century Rubens and Van Dyck and 19th century Renoir portraits, and a 1965 Saint Laurent minidress. The late Boucher and Deslandres were director and assistant, respectively, of the French Center for Costume Studies. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

This marvelously handsome and instructive survey of fashion in the Western world from ancient times to the present is an update of the first edition (Booklist 64:480 D 15 67). Boucher deals not only with high fashion, but also with daily wear, uniforms, and accessories. In engrossing detail, his text describes types of clothing, functions, materials, and cultural conditioning contextual to changing styles. The bounty of black-and-white and full-color illustrations are from works of art contemporary to the time period under consideration such as paintings, sculpture, and photographs. Notes and a bibliography follow each chronological chapter; a general bibliography, glossary, and index are appended. BH. 746.9'09 Costume History [OCLC] 86-72852