One of America's premier fashion historians offersan unrivaled and exceptional fashion resource.This immersive timeline is illustrated by photographs over 700 that tell the story of fashionthrough its changing and multitudinous silhouettes.As the years advance, we watch crinolines inflate anddeflate, the bustle shape-shift, skirts narrow, andsleeves balloon. The twentieth century opens with theS-bend corset, puffed at the waist, and as the decadesprogress, conformity all but disappears as clothingbecomes more casual. In the twenty-first century,formalwear becomes more elaborate than ever.Along with tracking every major change in fashion,readers also see evolutions in hairstyles, jewelry, hatstyles, outerwear, and footwear. Milbank keenlyillustrates how a certain style of dressing was ubiquitous the same silhouette worn not only inFrance and the United States but also in manycountries simultaneously. Real people not onlyfashion models are captured in casual outdoorscenes, strolling in Paris, New York, and London,lunching alfresco, playing croquet, riding horses,and even mountain climbing. Street photography ofthe last century is emphasized particularly: theearliest examples show women who dressed to bephotographed at the races in France, as they werecaptured by the predecessors of such modern-dayphotographers as Mary Hilliard and The Sartorialist,whose pictures we also see as we traverse themost recent years shown in this panoptic volume.