Clothes on and Off the Stage: A History of Dress from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

xviii, 292 pp. Illustrations by the author. CONTENTS: Practical Hints on Dressing for the Stage; The Old Stone, New Stone and Metal Ages; The Egyptians and the Arabs; Other Ancient Nations; The Chinese; The Japanese; The Hindus; The Greeks; The Etruscans and the Romans; The Franks, Goths, Gauls, Celts, Teutons, Lombards, and Ancient Britons; The Christians: Romans, Byzantines and the Monks; The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings; The Norman Period and Scottish Dress; From Charlemagne to the Thirteenth Century; The Thirteenth Century; The Fourteenth Century; The Fifteenth Century; The Sixteenth Century; Venetian Costume; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth Century; Peasants; Suggestions for Cutting Patterns; Index.