Ottoman Dress and Design in the West was written by Charlotte Jirousek, a scholar of Ottoman, modern Turkish and world dress, and a curator at Cornell University, who died unexpectedly in 2014. Her daughter Sara Catterall edited her manuscript and is credited as partial co-author. Jirousek introduces herself and her topic in a preface and outlines the goals of the book. Her lament that writers of Western history, and histories of dress, design and fashion, have been myopic is no less true for being obvious. The Ottoman Empire is excluded from most so-called European histories, despite stretching west almost to Vienna during much of the early modern period. This book writes the Ottomans - mostly those in Istanbul and its surrounds - thoroughly back into the narrative.
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