Kathryn Norberg is a professor of history and
gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
She has published on French history and is the coeditor of
Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about
the European and American Past.
Sandra Rosenbaum is the retired curator-in-charge
of the Doris Stein Research Center for Costume and Textiles, a part
of the Department of Costume and Textiles, at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, USA, for which she developed and supervised
an extensive library of primary and secondary source materials.
Too often, cultural historians and costume scholars invoke fashion
engravings as documentary "evidence" for the truth-claims they wish
to set forth about the clothing of a particular era; yet as the
authors and editors of this superb volume make clear, fashion
prints themselves have no less a complex history, and no fewer rich
interpretive possibilities, than do other forms of written or
visual expression.
--Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette
Wore to the Revolution
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