When Men Wore Muffs: The Story Of Men's Clothes
This book tells the story of the gradual evolution of the male wardrobe, from the days of the Roman toga to the modern Court Dress. The ascent-or is it, in some respects, the descent?- of men's clothes is traced through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, to our own day, each epoch with it's own distinguishing features- even muffs for men- each with its own outstanding figures, its Bucks, its Dandies, its Brummell, or its d'Orsay. The author has spent his life in studying clothes, and is more concerned with the human side of dress than the academic or technical aspects of the subject. He comes to the conclusion in discussing the causes and effects, the unaccountable and incontrollable vagaries of Fashion, that there is ever, in men's fashions, as in Nature's seasons, a cycle of birth and decline.