Overall, changing styles are interpreted in front of a wide continental backdrop of politics, law, religion, trade, science, and technology. Useful bibliography of 41 pages of primary/secondary sources and unpublished papers....Highly recommended. * B.B. Chico, CHOICE * It is rare to find an edited volume of such consistently high caliber across its contributions. ... The high-quality production of the volume with its generous colour illustrations of portraits and genre paintings, furniture and decorative objects, fashion albus and sample fabric books, individual garments and accessories brings this point home, beautifully evoking the materiality of early modern fashion * Laura R. Bass, Bulletin of the Comediantes * Important and original volume...Fashioning the Early Modern is beautifully illustrated and offers a wide geographical range. * Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement * [ The book] offers a welcome variety of approaches to the history of dress and textiles. It is hoped [ it may] now encourage future research into the cultural anthropology of human clothing, an area that has yet to be fully integrated into the study of the history of dress. * Jane Bridgeman, The Art Newspaper *