How long does it take to read The Guide to Historic Costume?
Karen Baclawski
The Guide to Historic Costume by Karen Baclawski takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A guide to surviving items of historical dress in British Museum collections. However since there is more surviving historical costume in this country than anywhere else in the world, it doubles as a dictionary of costume, providing information on where to.
Subjects: Clothing and dress, Fashion, Dictionaries, Kleidung, Kleding, Histoire
