THEA 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Janet Arnold, Sumptuary Law, Formal Wear
18 Jan 2020
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Art that is master works" what"s in art history. Costume: an outfit or something like it for a purpose such as doing something or conveying something etc. , other things along those lines. Dress history -- terms used to mean costume history, tells what latitude you can take with costuming for any kind of production. Things used to piece together fashion from the past: Journals that may recount sewing or clothes worn. Portraits which would show what formal wear people were wearing in many cases, and often skewed by artist and only depicted upper classes. Other kinds of art such as woodcuts, sculpture, and larger painted scenes of whole towns and the like can also be used. Novels/written books (specifically primary sources which should be compared to other primary sources of the time for accuracy, secondary sources can be good but only by comparing them to primary sources)
