Dictionary of Children's Clothes

A sumptuously illustrated resource for anyone with an interest in costumes and fashion.

Over the past 300 years, children's clothing has witnessed a gradual shift from dressing children to adult requirements, in multiple layers and formal styles, to the booming designer childrenswear market of today. This accessible and well-illustrated dictionary features over 300 garments, from air-raid suits to zouave jackets, with specially commissioned photographs from the world's largest and most diverse collections at the V & A Museum of Early Childhood. A fully illustrated timeline and introduction offer an at-a-glance understanding of the changes in children's fashions, and a rich selection of line drawings and illustrations from sewing and knitting patterns, catalogues, dolls, fashion plates, photographs, paintings and children's fiction put the garments in context.