Publisher's Synopsis
This volume in the "Exploring Clothes" series aims to help children to evaluate clothes and their purpose, now and in the past. The series aims to promote an investigative approach to history by encouraging children to explore the past through what they can see or find out from their surroundings. All the chapters in this book contain an activity section and the reader is told how to gather information and use it in a positive and constructive manner.;The study describes work clothes, sports clothes, traditional clothes and formal clothes, comparing past fashions with modern day equivalents. The maufacture of clothing materials throughout history is covered, examining the differences between synthetic fabrics and natural fibres and how to weave cloth.;The importance of the adaptability of clothes to suit climate and situation are also highlighted, along with a study of clothes children have worn in the past and the impracticality of fashions, such as the crinoline.
