Description: What is an epaulette? What is a hanbok? These clothing items--and hundreds more--are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide.
Review Quotes: "It's rare to find oneself so absorbed turning the pages in an A to Z of technical terms, but Mancoff's guide takes us from Appliqué to Zipper in a tour de force of fabric words, lush paintings and delightful anecdotes, like the scandal of John Singer Sargent's portrait of a woman with a slipped strap (later painted over), or the original features of pantaloons. The captions alone are worth buying this for. A lovely book."
--Victoria Finlay, author of Brilliant History of Color in Art