Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East

Great coverage of the different times and influences, but would be much better with colour plates. Black and White is difficult to focus on individual style elements.

Great resource, as a member of the SCA I love this book!

This book has many prints of paintings and artwork depicting details of the costuming of this era from this part of the world, with dates corresponding to the time periods. Some paintings included even show close details of seaming, which you do not often see in these types of sources. A fantastic source of inspiration for costuming and possibly period documentation for historical costuming.

I think this has to be THE definitive book on the subject and now it's back in print. Sadly I paid over 100.00 for the out of print version. This book is loaded with images--paintings, sculpture, actual garments and pattern diagrams. It is extremely well referenced. I enthusiastically recommend this book.

This is a amazing book! If you are interested in reproducing authentic costumes, this is the book for you. I have used this book many times to make my own costumes. There are patterns and pictures of each piece of clothing so you can easily make your own reproduction. This is the only book you need if you want to make a Turkish costume. It is also an excellent book for a college research paper. This book is too good to pass up!

This wasn't quite what I had expected, and I could have done with some coloured illustrations. However, it is an interesting account of the development of costume style. There are numerous illustrations from various periods and sources. Plus many diagrams showing how the garments were pieced together.

I got this book to learn a bit more about traditional eastern costume. It includes in depth text, images of paintings and some patterns for various costume shapes.A great help to any costumer looking into this area.

excellent, well written, all information is there, also patterns , if you are interested in these costumes this book is is a source of inspiration.