Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear

Opening this lavishly illustrated book is like stepping in to a dressing room and riffling through drawers and cupboards to pull out the items within. The reader then discovers what these pieces of clothing reveal about aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle through the ages. This a stylish tour of the most important developments and the most interesting oddments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day, and is crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts.

For those who have found themselves wondering if it's an occasion for spatterdashers, or who have worried whether they are wearing their Glasgow stiffener the right way up, this book will prove indispensable.