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Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack

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5.0

Not just who wore what then, but what 16th century Germans (well known and not) thought about what they wore and used clothing as a means of expressing identity (personal and national) and status. It's fairly dense but worth the time. Especially intriguing were the plates from the Matthau Schwartz's watercolor book, documenting his clothing throughout his life, and accounts of first exposure to people and goods from the New World.
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