Survey of Historic Costume Book

I genuinely liked this text book, in part because I enjoyed the subject matter and the class I read it for, but also because it had a real flare to it. Something about the way it would coldly state things like: "1430, men switch to leggings." just tickled me. It's so...ominous somehow. I guess that's probably just the brain of a overtired college student finding entertainment where there is little, but it wasn't just the ominous little updates that kept me interested. Where else would I learn that actual lifelong hardened criminals used to make a living snatching wigs off of the heads of rich people? If that's not a movie you'd like to see then frankly I don't understand what's wrong with you. I also relished the descriptions of fine Venetian ladies all done up like John Waters heroins with giant hair, platform shoes, and trashy amounts of cleavage. These are the sorts of images that really keep me shuffling on through my days. And if you think the fun stops when things get a bit more contemporary you would be wrong! I can't tell you how disorienting it was to see the members of Salt-n-Pepa gazing up at me from a textbook. Honestly a thrilling read. My only complaint is the cover, which is just alarmingly hideous.