"Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something"James Laver (1889-1975): author, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938-1959. He was also a pioneering fashion historian, described as “the man in England who made the study of costume acceptable." Laver wrote many books and articles in his lifetime, most famously A Concise History of Costume (World Art) (1968) which was re-titled (in 1995) Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. This book, still in print today, has had many great covers over the years including the ones below.
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