Introduction: Seeing dress in art
Part I. Portraying dress. Introduction ; Artists' fashions ; In the studio
Part II. Identifying the nation. Introduction ; Going Dutch in the seventeenth century ; Fashioning the court of Louis XIV ; Reading dress : class, character and identity in Hogarth's work
Part III. Dressing up. Introduction ; Masquerade ; Looking east ; Addressing the antique ; Romancing the past
Part IV. Painting modern life. Introduction ; Dressing stories ; Reigning taste : depicting fashion in the Second Empire ; Artists and fashion
Part V. Designing artists. Introduction ; Fashioning beauty ; Reforming dress
Afterword: Seeing art in dress.