Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing.(Book review) From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Paoletti, John T. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. By Carole Collier Frick (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv plus 347 pp. $47.00).

This book presents a detailed discussion of style, the clothing industry and its technical underpinnings, economic history, social decorum, gender, and changing social customs in Florence from the end of the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Frick's evidence derives from substantive archival searches ...