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The drafting history of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing; American Women's History: A Research Guide Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Clothing and Fashion; All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume; Gallery of English Medieval Clothing from 1906 by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Clothing reveals much about human history. According to Professor Kiki Smith of Smith College, garments preserved in collections are resources for study similar to books and paintings. [ 36 ] Scholars around the world have studied a wide range of clothing topics, including the history of specific items of clothing, [ 37 ] [ 38 ] clothing styles ...
The history of clothing encompasses the clothes worn in various places at various times and the methods by which those clothes were made or acquired. Subcategories organized by date: Category:African clothing covers Clothing worn in north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, from paleolithic to the pre-modern era; Category:History of Oceanian ...
The clothing of men and women at several social levels of Ancient Egypt are depicted in this tomb mural from the 15th century BC. The preservation of fabric fibers and leathers allows for insights into the attire of ancient societies. The clothing used in the ancient world reflects the technologies that these peoples mastered. In many cultures ...
Fashion plate, 1835. Journal des demoiselles. Dress history is the study of history, which uses clothing and textiles to understand the past. Through analyzing modes of dress, different garment types, textiles, and accessories of a certain time in history, a dress historian may research and identify the social, cultural, economic, technological, and political contexts that influence such ...
Coat is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages. (See also Clothing terminology.) The Oxford English Dictionary traces coat in its modern meaning to c. 1300, when it was written cote or cotte. The word coat stems from Old French and then Latin cottus. [2]
Clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence during the early modern period (c. 1750 to World War II) is categorised under Category:History of clothing (Western fashion). Articles on clothing history that cover multiple eras are listed under the supercategory Category:History of clothing.
A garment factory in Bangladesh. Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural products found in the environment, put together.