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Title: English Costume from the Early Middle Ages Through the Sixteenth Century by Iris Brooke ISBN: 0-486-41238-5 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good children's costume books
Comment: I have fond memories of checking out the original printing of these books from my local public library as a child. They placed these books in the children's section- for readers 8 and up. And I checked out those hardcover books over and over. Those books may have helped spark my lifelong interest in historical costume. Ms. Brooke's rendering of the costumes are very clear, and often they are presented in groups as if you were looking into a scene in a story or play. Excellent books for older children and young teens interested in costume history.

Rating: 3
Summary: Shallow Overview of Medieval Costume
Comment: This is probably a great book for the beginner, but if you are looking for either a serious study of medieval costume or a how-to, you will probably be disappointed.

This book goes into a lot of detail about medieval costume with little documentation to back it up. There are no tips on construction and no actual pictures. Instead, the author relies on romanticized line drawings of people in costume with the emphasis apparently on the people, rather than the costume.

Once again, however, if you are an absolute beginner with little to no knowledge of medieval costuming, this book is an economical way to catch-up. It has a very wide scope. I did not note anything blatantly wrong, and the drawings, unhelpful as they are from a construction viewpoint, do show the costumes in context and as they would actually appear on the (idealized) human form.

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