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The book discusses the Indo-European origins of English, the growing status of English as a global language, the complex etymology of English words, the dialects of English, spelling reform, prescriptive grammar, and other topics including swearing. This account popularises the subject and makes it accessible to the lay reader, but it has been ...
In Origins of the English Language: A Social & Linguistic History he traces the history of the English language from the evolution of man through to Modern English. His interest in studying close connection between grammar and rhetoric was reflected in another earlier book The New English: Structure, Form, Style and culminated in Style: Lessons ...
The definitions of dress, apparel and fashion are the starting point and the principal focus of the various contributions: dress is analyzed as a body modification, apparel is connected to history or the exhibition in a museum, and fashion corresponds to the changes related to body alterations and ornamentation, over short periods of time.
Djellaba. The djellaba or jillaba (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ l ɑː b ə /; Arabic: جلابة), also written gallabea, is a long, loose-fitting unisex outer robe or dress with full sleeves that is worn in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
The word gaberdine or gabardine has been used to refer to a particular item of clothing, a sort of long cassock but often open at the front, since at least the 15th century. In the 16th century the term began to be used for outer garments of the poor, later narrowed to a rain cloak or protective smock-frock. [4] [5]
The novel takes the form of a long review by a somewhat cantankerous unnamed Editor for the English publication Fraser's Magazine (in which the novel was first serialised without any distinction of the content as fictional) who is, upon request, reviewing the fictional German book Clothes, Their Origin and Influence by the fictional philosopher ...
c. 25000 BC – Venus figurines depicted with clothing. [3] c. 8000 BC – Evidence of flax cultivation in the Near East. [4] c. 6000 BC – Evidence of woven textiles used to wrap the dead at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia. [4] c. 3000 BC – Breeding of domesticated sheep with a wooly fleece rather than hair in the Near East. [4]