[MR] ISO book 10000 years of middle eastern dress

[Bambi TBNL]

Bot 20,000 years of fashion? Oh and the there is some thing by Jennifer scarce called women clothing of the middleman or  something like that. Maybe the yo have Ben confused?
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:25:22 am
To: "Robert Amann" <runewald at gmail.com>
Cc: "Atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" <Atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
From: "Tracie Brown" <strongerthantea at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] ISO book 10000 years of  middle eastern dress

On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Robert Amann <runewald at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that the book she is referring to is called something like, "10,000 Years of Clothing".   I had a copy of this book, but when we moved, I gave it to the Baltimore Book Thing.   The book is related to costuming.

Then it's probably 20,000 Years of Fashion.  http://www.amazon.com/Fashion-History-Costume-Personal-Adornment/dp/0810916932
Widely available in local public libraries and academic libraries (if it hasn't been stolen), as well as new and used. If you can, get the most recent edition -- 1987, I think.  Many SCA costumers own it.  Most useful for getting inspiration from the pictures and identifying artwork or artifacts worthy of further research. Because of the 20,000-year scope, this is a broad survey, not an in-depth study. 

Yes, I know that a fair number of readers already know this, but if we ever reach the point that there are no beginners on the list, either in the SCA or at a particular SCA activity or inter