Meet the author of this book - Raisa Kirsanova. When she was a girl, she loved to wear her grandmother's old coat and dress herself in all sorts of strange outfits. And, of course, I learned to sew. And now she is a professor, she has written many books - about Japanese theatrical costume, about the history of clothing, about its theory. This one also exists. Kirsanova knows so much about clothes that she even wrote a fashion encyclopedia. Imagine, I had to stop her all the time, otherwise the book would have turned out to be too long. From what she did not write, a thousand such books could be compiled. And everyone is just as interesting. Lyudmila Ulitskaya