GARLAND, Madge. The Changing Form of Fashion.

(New York, NY): Praeger, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 25.8cm by 16cm. 130 pages. An interesting survey of the evolution of Western fashion by influential British fashion editor and educator Madge Garland. Tracing the development of dress from antiquity to the late twentieth century, Garland examines the changing silhouette, construction, ornament, and social function of clothing, with particular attention to the relationship between fashion, industry, class, and modernity. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic reproductions and period imagery, the work provides a concise but authoritative overview of historical costume and twentieth-century fashion design. A very good copy, slightly musty, in dust jacket.