Abstract
THE history of clothing and of ornaments is an important aspect of the history of culture, and it well deserves independent treatment. M. Bourdeau deals with the primitive articles of clothing, skins, natural vegetable products and the like, the method of working these, and the fabrication of textiles and the methods of colouring them. The making and wearing jof clothes are briefly noted with the history of costumes, in which are included dressing the hair, head, hand and foot gear, umbrellas and jewellery. The scheme is good enough, but, as the work is confined to 299 pages, the treatment is necessarily slight, for the author begins with Genesis, quotes Greek and Roman authors, and, glancing at intermediate periods, finishes with modern industrialism, making allusions by the way to non European peoples of varied culture.
Histoire de l'Habillement et de Parure.
Bibliothèque scientifique internationale. By Louis . Pp. 302. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1904.) Price 6 francs.
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Histoire de l'Habillement et de Parure . Nature 70, 150 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070150a0
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