Want to learn about ancient fashions?
Are you curious about the fashions of the Turks or the Carolingians? Have you wondered why fashions are so important or what fashions tell you about ancient societies? Do you wonder how Stone Age people dressed, what Byzantine church officials wore, or why Egyptians choose linen?
To answer these questions and more, read HistoryPicks' Ancient Pictorial Fashions.
Ancient Pictorial Fashions helps you learn how and why innovations and historical events are integrated into ancient fashions. It also provides insight as to why ancient societies selected their clothing styles and how the environment dictated the use of certain fabrics or styles. In addition, this book explains how early societies incorporated cultural beliefs and notions of beauty into their everyday fashions.
To really understand fashion, you also need to see them because reading about fashions is not enough. Ancient Pictorial Fashions gives you the opportunity to do just that by allowing you to view more than 50 vivid and full-page images. These images have been taken from illustrations created in the 1800s, and they cover the time period between the Stone Age and 1000 A.D.
HistoryPicks’ images show dress fashions worn by all the social classes—from commoners to soldiers to the clergy to nobles, and even kings and queens are represented. There are also images of fashions worn by different societies—Teutonics, Egyptians, Turks, Persians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Carolingians, Franks, and more. If you ever wondered how well-known rulers dressed in ancient times you can discover the styles worn by such rulers as the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and his wife, the great Charlemagne, King Charles the Bald, and even the Holy Roman Emperor, Saint Henry II.
HistoryPick’s Ancient Pictorial Fashions doesn’t end there. This book provides more than pictures or interesting facts, it helps you to really learn and understand ancient fashions by providing a well-defined glossary of unique terms, and, moreover, readers can easily locate topics because there is a comprehensive index included.
Are you curious about the fashions of the Turks or the Carolingians? Have you wondered why fashions are so important or what fashions tell you about ancient societies? Do you wonder how Stone Age people dressed, what Byzantine church officials wore, or why Egyptians choose linen?
To answer these questions and more, read HistoryPicks' Ancient Pictorial Fashions.
Ancient Pictorial Fashions helps you learn how and why innovations and historical events are integrated into ancient fashions. It also provides insight as to why ancient societies selected their clothing styles and how the environment dictated the use of certain fabrics or styles. In addition, this book explains how early societies incorporated cultural beliefs and notions of beauty into their everyday fashions.
To really understand fashion, you also need to see them because reading about fashions is not enough. Ancient Pictorial Fashions gives you the opportunity to do just that by allowing you to view more than 50 vivid and full-page images. These images have been taken from illustrations created in the 1800s, and they cover the time period between the Stone Age and 1000 A.D.
HistoryPicks’ images show dress fashions worn by all the social classes—from commoners to soldiers to the clergy to nobles, and even kings and queens are represented. There are also images of fashions worn by different societies—Teutonics, Egyptians, Turks, Persians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Carolingians, Franks, and more. If you ever wondered how well-known rulers dressed in ancient times you can discover the styles worn by such rulers as the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and his wife, the great Charlemagne, King Charles the Bald, and even the Holy Roman Emperor, Saint Henry II.
HistoryPick’s Ancient Pictorial Fashions doesn’t end there. This book provides more than pictures or interesting facts, it helps you to really learn and understand ancient fashions by providing a well-defined glossary of unique terms, and, moreover, readers can easily locate topics because there is a comprehensive index included.
