The foundation stones : dress history publications from 1560 to 1900 -- Dress history debates from 1900 -- Establishing ethnographical dress collections from the sixteenth century -- Establishing British dress collections -- The development of collections of Western dress in France, East/Central Europe, and the USA -- Establishing collection of European peasant and regional dress -- Collecting European peasant and British regional dress in museums in Britain -- The marriage of the new dress history and new museology approaches.