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enization. In his examination of court cases in Murcia, Badajoz, and Alicante, he demonstrates that, in effect, sartorial difference in Moriscos became meaningful only within specific socioeconomic and political contexts. This stimulating monograph ends with a chapter that suggests that once Moorish clothing began to lose its social prestige, in the decades following the Morisco expulsion (1609–14), Morisco clothing became increasingly exoticized in literary works.While historiography tended to highlight the uncertainties in the sartorial practices of Moriscos, plays produced after 1620 exploit performative Morisco clothing in order to show Moriscos as bearing unmistakably Moorish bodies for the target audience. The Moriscos of the plays in the post-Morisco expulsion period appear, indeed, as “Moors dressed as Moors.” Irigoyen-García’s book is a much-needed corrective to existing studies on early modern Spanish dress, which tend to undermine the diversity of Morisco cultures and their sartorial practices, which, inmany cases, were not that distinguishable from others in their local context. This is a must read for any scholar interested in better appreciating the complex relationship between dress, social status, and ethnicity in early modern Iberian. I will certainly assign it in future graduate courses on early modern cultures, as it contributes not only to discussions on clothing, but also to the construction of Iberian identities more broadly speaking.