Stella Mary Newton, née Pearce was an English fashion designer and dress historian, who brought the history of fashion to bear on art history and the dating of paintings.
Works
• Health, Art and Reason: dress reformers of the 19th century, 1974 • Renaissance Theatre Costume and the Sense of the Historic Past, 1975 • Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: a study of the years 1340-1365, 1980 • The Dress of the Venetians, 1495-1525, 1988 ==References==