Offering full-colour history of costume, this illustrated work is intended for children. With over 320 hand-drawn illustrations, and descriptions on every page, it offers a survey of Western costume. It seeks to serve as an educational resource.

Introduction • Ancient Egypt 200–1200BC • Ancient Crete 2000–1200BC and Ancient Greece 600–150BC • Ancient Babylon and Assyria 1200–500BC and Persia 600–500BC Ancient Rome 100BC–AD500 and Byzantium 500BC–AD1200 • Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages 100–1000 • Early Middle Ages 1000–1100 • High Middle Ages 1100–1200 • The Age of the Crusades 1200–1250 • The Age of Invention 1250–1300 • Time of the Great Famine and Black Death 1300–1350 • The Age of Medieval Romance 1350–1400 • Late Middle Ages 1400–1430 • Early Renaissance 1430–1465 • The Age of Exploration 1465–1500 High Renaissance 1500–1525 • Time of the Conquistadors 1525–1550 • Time of the Wars of Religion 1550–1575 • The Golden Age 1575–1600 • Late Renaissance 1600–1625 • The Colonial Era 1625–1650 • The Age of Puritanism 1650–1675 • The Age of the Buccaneers 1675–1700 • The Age of Enlightenment 1700–1725 • Late Baroque Period 1725–1750 Rococo Period 1750–1775 • Era of the American and French Revolutions 1775–1800 • The Age of the Industrial Revolution 1800–1820 • The Age of the Pioneer Settlers 1820–1840 The Golden Age of the Railways 1840–1860 • Era of the American Civil War 1860–1880 The Second Industrial Revolution 1880–1900 • The Turn of the Twentieth Century 1900–1920 • Twenties & Thirties 1920–1935 • Thirties & Forties 1935–1950 • Fifties & Sixties 1950–1970 • Seventies & Eighties 1970–1985 • Modern Times 1985–present day