Imagine the fashion catwalk on which Charles V, Marie Antoinette, Margaret Thatcher, Ivan the Terrible and Napoleon Bonaparte defile! Our book will reveal to you the secrets of the costume of the powerful. But not only the rulers are famous for unusual outfits. Judges and gendarmes, circus performers and academicians, brides and grooms, firefighters and scuba divers have their own "uniforms" - everyone is recognized and met, as they say, by their clothes, and everyone has their own fashion. How did their outfits change, what are their secrets and symbols?