SPLENDOR OF THE WORLD'S COSTUMES. - Lot 848

SPLENDOR OF THE WORLD'S COSTUMES. Catalog of the exhibition presented at the MUSEE DE L' HOMME, from June 1978 to February 1979. 80 pages - 21 x 14,4 cm - French only Costume is linked to the body, concealing it and enhancing it at the same time. The function of clothing ranges from physical protection to the eroticization of certain body parts. The garment is an aesthetic work, and often a work of art, connoting rank, social and economic status. In some civilizations, the status of the wearer may even indicate private life: maiden, fiancée, wife, virgin... A world tour of costume, this catalog is a fine ethnic and sociological work: Asia, Siberia, Eskimos, Europe, Lapland, America, Mexico, Mayas, White Africa, Black Africa, Madagascar, Oceania....