costume
Introduction
The term costume also includes accessories, such as the shoe, hat, glove, corset, handkerchief, fan, umbrella, cane, and jewelry; styles of wearing the hair (see hairdressing) and beard; and primitive methods of body-marking and attaching ornaments to the body.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Ancient Costume
- Medieval Costume
- Renaissance Costume
- Seventeenth-Century Costume
- Eighteenth-Century Costume
- Nineteenth-Century Costume
- Twentieth-Century Costume
- National Dress
- Bibliography
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