[pdf] The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Costume And Fashion, 1550 1920

Tracing the evolution of fashion – from the early draped fabrics of ancient times to the catwalk couture of today – Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style is a stunningly illustrated guide to more than three thousand years of shifting trends and innovative developments in the world of clothing.

A fully illustrated visual guide to the secret language of signs and symbols and a rich source of information for the general reader. It explains the origins and meanings of thousands of symbols from the horseshoe to the rose.

This book, one of three volumes, showcases the effective transformation of companies providing banking and insurance services. This first volume gives a business-oriented introduction to the setting and the current challenges of fintech, regtech, and insurtech and provides an outlook on what will be needed in the future. Specific sub-departments in financial services are examined with a view to accounting, risk, and regulatory segments.