The Evolution Of Fashion
by Florence Mary Gardiner
Publisher: The Cotton press 1897
ISBN/ASIN: 144140810X
Number of pages: 112
Description:
The book lays no claim to being a technical treatise on a subject which is practically inexhaustible, but has been written with the intention of bringing before the general public in a popular manner circumstances which have influenced in a marked degree the wearing apparel of the British Nation.
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