The author, a well-known historian of material culture, fascinatingly describes the history of ordinary clothing and household items. This book is a dictionary of forgotten things known to our contemporary only from literature. Indeed, on whom you can see today a frock coat or business card, a robron or a crinoline. The topic of the publication can be defined as historical commodity science. At the same time, the book also includes those items that are accepted in our everyday life, but about the origin of which many know practically nothing.