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Visual History of Costume: Eighteenth Century (Batsford, 1983). •
Dress in Eighteenth Century Europe, 1715-89 (Batsford, 1984; 2nd edition 2002). •
The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (Taylor & Francis, 1984). •
Dress and Morality (Batsford, 1986; 2nd edition 2003). •
Female Face (Tate, 1987). •
Fashion in the French Revolution (Batsford, 1988). • (with Valerie Cumming),
A Visual History of Costume (Batsford, 1989). • ''Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women'' (
Yale University Press, 1999). •
The Gallery of Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, 2000). •
Fashion and Fiction. Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England (Yale University Press, 2005). • ‘A 'most extraordinary figure, handsome and bold.' Gainsborough's Portrait of Ann Ford 1760’, in Benedict Leca (ed.),
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman (D Giles, 2010). • ‘What do artists see in dress?’, in Ioanna Papantoniou (ed.),
Endyesthai (To dress), Towards a Costume Culture Museum (Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, 2010). •
Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art (Yale University Press, 2011). •
Clothing Art: The visual culture of fashion 1600 - 1914 (Yale University Press, 2017). ==Notes==