Abstract:
This collection of writings provides an intensive reading
of dress fashions of royalty which intensified Portuguese
political power over the Kingdom of Kotte. The royalties
were at the top in the social strata eventually known to be the
fashion creators of society. Their engagement in creating and
practicing dress fashion prevailed from time immemorial. The
author builds a sound dialogue within six chapters’ covering
most areas of dress fashion by incorporating valid recorded
historical data, variety of recorded visual formats cross
checking each other, clarifying how the period signifies a
turning point in the fashion history of Sri Lanka culminating
with emerging novel dress features. This scholarly work is
very much vital for university academia and fellow researches
in the stream of Humanities and Social Sciences interested in
historical dress fashions and usage of jewelry. Furthermore,
the content leads the reader into a new perspective on the
subject through a sound dialogue which has been narrated
through validated recorded historical data, recorded historical
visual information, and logical analysis with reference to
scholars of the subject area. Therefore the reader is guided
into cross referencing over a variety of data gradually and
will gain reliable and analytical interpretation of the subject.
