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Browsing through Quite Specific Media's website tonight and ran across this book

UNDERSTANDING FASHION HISTORY by Valerie Cumming
http://www.quitespecificmedia.com/book_more.php?bookID=89&extend=true

A much needed overview of fashion history and how to understand it with clear, jargon-free text for lay readers, collectors, as well as students of fashion history.

Illustrated throughout with plates, photographs, paintings and drawings, the book is divided into the following chapters:


Has anyone seen/read this book? Is it good?

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Another interesting looking book, for all you Venitian loving people

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice : Art, Architecture, and the Family
by Patricia Brown
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300102364/