Cut My Cote Book

This fashion book takes the odd and interesting idea of focusing on the parts of the body that are often featured in dress and fashion throughout history: Neck and shoulders, Chest, Waist, Hips, Feet. It discusses how the focus changes. Included are the obvious: ruffs, brassieres, corsets, bustles, and Chinese foot-binding. Many if not most of the modern examples seem to me to be unwearable, being fashion catwalk versions of some designers' exaggerations. This covers both men and women by the way. Shown are a samurai in formal kimono, an Elizabethan man with a ruff, somebody's fancy armor, Dinka warriors in beads and not much else, an Elizabethan man in trunk hose, and others. But it's mostly focused on women's fashions and designers' excesses.
Mostly it makes me glad I'm not interested in high fashion or the latest thing.