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Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns, Book Two by Jenny Tiramani Publisher Comments Book Two in the V&As groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a 17th-century womans wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Tudor Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris Publisher Comments Monumental, profusely illustrated study of English fashions from 14851603. Highly authentic, detailed survey exuberantly describes clothing, headgear, hairstyles, jewelry, collars, footwear, more worn by royalty, nobility, middle and lower classes.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Read Fashion: A Crash Course in Styles, Designers, and Couture by Fiona Ffoulkes Publisher Comments This stylishly illustrated guide parses the visual vocabulary to understand, investigate, and interpret seminal fashions and styles. The perfect companion for fashionistas and anyone interested in a better understanding of how fashions and styles evolve,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern by Mary Brooks Picken Publisher Comments Fascinating, fact-filled compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, and other... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Little Corset Construction Book: A Workbook on Period Underwear by Bonnie Holt Ambrose Publisher Comments Ambrose has extensive experience designing and cutting costumes. She has discovered some time-saying and simple methods for building hats and period clothing and is sharing her knowledge in this charming minibook series. Each book is extensively... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Mass Market
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Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (World of Art) by James Laver Publisher Comments From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim; from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today—this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history, the forms and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch" by Christoph Weiditz Publisher Comments Classic costume book of the 16th century depicts dress of Europeans, especially Spanish, of all classes. Special section on Aztec Indians brought to Spain by Cortes and sketched from life there by Weiditz. All 154 original plates have been meticulously... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vecellio S Renaissance Costume Book (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Cesare Vecellio Publisher Comments All 500 woodcut illustrations from the famous 16th-century compendium: nobles, matrons, peasants, more. New English captions.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wedding Fashions, 1860-1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" by Joanne Olian Publisher Comments Five decades of exquisite confections of satin, taffeta, and lace for the bride, superb ruffled creations for sisters of the bride and scores of lovely pleated and lace-trimmed outfits for bridal attendants all accompanied by exhaustively detailed... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss Publisher Comments ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit. --Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Women's Fashions of the Early 1900s #900: Women S Fashions of the Early 1900s: An Unabridged Republication of "New York Fashions, 1909" by National Cloak & Sui Publisher Comments Rare catalog describes and illustrates fashions offered by a prominent mail-order merchant shortly after the turn of the century. Captions fully describe styling, special features and trim of each item and include original prices. Invaluable resource for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Dress Pattern Catalogs, 1873-1909: Four Complete Reprints by Nancy Villa Bryk Publisher Comments Reprinted from four rare dress pattern catalogs, this compilation offers an excellent overview of apparel from the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. More than 3,750 black-and-white illustrations depict everything from bicycle suits to evening wear,... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Power and Style: A World History of Politics and Dress by Dominique Gaulme Publisher Comments From the invention of clothing to modern menswear, fashion has been used to embody power in monarchies, military regimes, dictatorships, and the birth of democracy. From the advent of the first civilizations along the Euphrates, Indus, and Nile rivers... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $65.00 Used - Hardcover
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Women of the Tang Dynasty (Genius of China Close-Up Guides) by May Holdsworth Publisher Comments The Close-Up series is the first of its kind to give you a concise introduction to individual aspects of China and its people. Each topic is presented by experts in their fields who write with brevity and clarity for the intelligent reader.<P>Women... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady S Wardrobe by Kristina Harris Publisher Comments Rich selection of scaled dressmaker’s patterns from the popular late 19th-century magazine The Voice of Fashion details 50 garments for women, from handsome daytime and evening dresses to casual tennis outfits, a riding habit, and undergarments... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper S Bazar, 1867-1898 (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Stella Blum Publisher Comments Day costumes, evening wear, sports clothes, shoes, hats, other accessories in over 1,000 detailed engravings. Very thorough identification of styles, materials, colors by editor. An introduction by Stella Blum covers the history of Harper's Bazar and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vintage Ladies Accessories: Identification and Value Guide by Laree Johnso Bruton Publisher Comments Featured are hats, purses, hankies, gloves, fans, parasols, hosiery, shoes, aprons, and capes. This book is a compelling photo study of the styles for each era - Victorian, Edwardian, Roaring Twenties, Depression, WWII, Fabulous Fifties, and Modern - and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh Publisher Comments Each period in the history of costume has produced its own characteristic line and silhouette, derived from a cut and construction which varies considerably from age to age. Here are patterns taken from actual dresses, many of them rare museum specimens,... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price: $80.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: (03 Edition) by Cunningham Pat Publisher Comments This first comprehensive study of women's dress reform considers the many advocates for reform and thoroughly examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Drawing on a broad variety of primary... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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M.R.: The Snippy World of New Yorker Fashion Artist Michael Roberts by Michael Roberts Publisher Comments Michael Roberts is "the Jean Cocteau of the fashion world" wrote the celebrated New Yorker editor Tina Brown in 1997, welcoming her new fashion editor to the most prestigious magazine in the world. Having already served for many years as a style editor... (read more) List Price $76.50 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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