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3 - Fashion in the Ancient World

from Part I - Multiple Origins of Fashion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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‘Show me the clothes of a country and I can write its history.’1

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
, pp. 51 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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