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"Close-up look at fashionable eighteenth-century society, in which ... dress was a symbol of social and political position. Seven American and British authorities on costume and textiles have written the book's ... essays on the elegant art of dress ... Fabrics and their manufacture are ... illustrated ... The book includes a catalogue of more than 400 objects from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ... the glossary's 270 terms ... an illustrated appendix on conservation ... 268 illustrations, including 58 plates in full color"--Dustjacket.

Clothing and dress --- Fashion and art --- Fashion --- 391 --- CDL --- Style in dress --- Art and fashion --- Art --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Undressing --- History --- Exhibitions --- Manufacturing technologies --- fashion design --- textile materials --- mode --- textiel --- geschiedenis --- Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus --- County Museum of Art [Los Angeles, Calif.] --- anno 1700-1799