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Too often, cultural historians and costume scholars invoke fashion engravings as documentary evidence for the truth-claims they wish to set forth about the clothing of a particular era; yet as the authors and editors of this superb volume make clear, fashion prints themselves have no less a complex history, and no fewer rich interpretive possibilities, than do other forms of written or visual expression. Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Too often, cultural historians and costume scholars invoke fashion engravings as documentary evidence for the truth-claims they wish to set forth about the clothing of a particular era; yet as the authors and editors of this superb volume make clear, fashion prints themselves have no less a complex history, and no fewer rich interpretive possibilities, than do other forms of written or visual expression. --Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Too often, cultural historians and costume scholars invoke fashion engravings as documentary ""evidence"" for the truth-claims they wish to set forth about the clothing of a particular era; yet as the authors and editors of this superb volume make clear, fashion prints themselves have no less a complex history, and no fewer rich interpretive possibilities, than do other forms of written or visual expression. --Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

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Kathryn Norberg is a professor of history and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She has published on French history and is the coeditor of Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past. Sandra Rosenbaum is the retired curator-in-charge of the Doris Stein Research Center for Costume and Textiles, a part of the Department of Costume and Textiles, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA, for which she developed and supervised an extensive library of primary and secondary source materials.

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