This was such an interesting book. It wasn't near as detailed as Underwear: Fashion in Detail- another Victoria & Albert Museum title which I thoroughly enjoyed reading when I picked it up. That said, however, it was absolutely just as wonderful as the other one was.
In fact, all of the things that I loved about Underwear: Fashion in Detail are wholly applicable to this book as well- right up to and including the availability of bibliography superscripts in the text, museum collection information for further reference, and the sheer amount and breadth of the extant examples featured within the pages. The only difference, really, is that it just has a different focus topic, and it's a bit more narrow in regards to what that focus happens to be.
Honestly at this point, even though I've only picked up two of their titles so far, I'm convinced that the Victoria & Albert Museum should be looked to as the gold standard for how to write about and quote source your extant items correctly... I can genuinely think of more than a few books that I've read in the last two weeks that could stand to follow their lead in many ways- and sorely need to; no publications other than theirs has managed to get it so thoroughly correct as they have, nor so beautifully so.