Patterns of Fashion 4: The cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women c. 1540 - 1660

No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians tostage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion andcostume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's Patternsof Fashion series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since heruntimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting,with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to thelinen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, acompanion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the sameera. Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed byJenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that isdedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skinoutwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs ofdetails of garments in the explanatory section as well as patternsfor 86 items of linen clothing which range from men's shirts andwomen's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose andchildren's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluableguide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderfulgarments.

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