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Clothing and fashion: a history

Yugoslavia, 1972
film

The evolution of fashions in clothing, from Egyptian times until today, is perceived in amusing animation. The choice to cover the body with unnatural materia..

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Clothing. - 3rd ed.

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Sixty years of fashion

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Dressing up in the past

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