An essential work for everyone concerned with design and costume for the stage, the screen and television. It traces the development of costume and cutting over a period of almost ten centuries. The Evolution of Fashion provides 56 full-page drawings which illustrate, in period settings, the changing trends in male and female dress from 1066 to 1930. For each of the costumes illustrated there is a detailed dressmakers pattern, drawn to scale and supported by technical notes on making up. Useful and practical accompanying text includes comments on the general characteristics of the costume of each period and important observation on appropriate deportment for both men and women. Notes on the undergarments that played such an important part in determining the line of the costume, as well as on headdress and hairstyle, outer garments, shoes and accessories, will help complete the effect of period style. This invaluable and comprehensive sourcebook with 56 fashion sketches and 56 period patterns will be an important addition to any library on the history of fashion and theatrical design.