Islamic dress

Volumes 5 discuss what is some-times referred to as the democratization of fashion. At the begin-ning of the twentieth century, high quality, stylish clothes weredesigned by and made available to a privileged elite; by the middleto end of the century, well-made clothes were widely available inthe West, and new styles came from creative and usually youth-oriented cultural groups as often as they did from designers.

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Volume 4 - Modern world part I: 1900-1945. Volumes 4 cover the period of Western history since1900. These volumes trace the rise of the fashion designer as theprimary creator of new clothing styles, chart the impact of technol-ogy on costume traditions, and present the innovations made pos-sible by the introduction of new synthetic, or man-made, materials.Perhaps most importantly.

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Vvolume 3 - European culture from the Renaissance to the modern era. Volume 3 featuresthe costume traditions of the developing European nation-statesin the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, and looks at theimportance of the royal courts in introducing clothing styles andthe shift from home-based garmentmaking to shop-based and thenfactory-based industry.

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Volume 2 looks at the transition from the ancient world tothe Middle Ages, focusing on the Asian cultures of China and Japan,the Byzantine Empire, the nomadic and barbarian cultures of earlyEurope, and Europe in the formative Middle Ages. This volume alsohighlights several of the ancient cultures of North America, Southand Central America, and Africa that were encountered by Europeans during the Age of Exploration that began in the fifteenthcentury.

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Volume 1: The ancient world. Volume 1 covers the ancient world, including prehistoric manand the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Greece, andRome. Key issues covered in this volume include the early use ofanimal skins as garments, the introduction of fabric as the primaryhuman body covering, and the development of distinct cultural tra-ditions for draped and fitted garmen

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