Abstract: As the most classical popular fictions in British and American literary history, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca had been made into films for many  times  and  impacted  generation  after  generation.  The  classical  characters  in  these masterpieces  have  become  greatly  impressive  and  immortal.  However,  the  most important key of shaping characters is the vivid garment description. This paper, based on  the  two  novels  that  mentioned  above,  is  intended  to  discover  the  role  of  garment description on shaping images. My paper will conclude several functions of garment description from the point of costume's culture significance first，then have a brief introduction of Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, and state the reason why these two works are selected. The main part of this thesis, take Gone with the Wind and Rebecca as examples, will divided the  charm  of  the  classical  characters with men and ladies and analysis the effect of the garment descriptions. 

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1. Introduction..1

2. The effect of the garment on the literature2

2.1 The features of garment styles in Rebecca

2.2 The features of garment styles in gone with the wind

3. Instances for the men and ladies in the literary4

3.1 The garment of gentlemen

3.2 The garment of the lady

4. Garment description and psychological character10

5. Conclusion12

6. Bibliography.11

7.Acknowledgement.12