An "alternate history" of fashion, this intriguing collection traces a timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a disruptive fashion chronology. Nicholas Alan Cope captures 120 fashions with sublime black-and-white photography and quotations from Virginia Woolf's books appear throughout, while a new story by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions.