Fashion and Family History: Interpreting How Your Ancestors Dressed by Jayne Shrimpton 417 color photos

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Included is a special dedication to Susie and Jim Webb

Fashion and Family History: Interpreting How Your Ancestors Dressed by Jayne Shrimpton 417 color photosTable of Contents Studying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skilfully illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrates how fashion and clothes represent the everyday experiences of earlier generations, illuminating the world in which they lived. As Britain evolved during the 1800s from a slow paced agrarian society into an urban industrial nation, dress was transformed. Traditional rural styles declined