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This valuable survey uses theatrical costumes as contemporary clues to the clothing that was in vogue throughout much of western Europe from 1260 to 1840. 176 black-and-white illustrations.

Gives the designer some ideas about how fashions might be reproduced both for plays set in the period and plays from these early times that might be resurrected.