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80 Godey S Full-Color Fashion Plates: 1838" 1880
by Joanne Olian  Publisher Comments Superb, meticulously reproduced illustrations from rare source provide authentic views of Victorian dresses, gowns, coats, accessories. A must for costume designers, cultural historians, fashion enthusiasts. Introduction. Captions.<BR>...
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Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries
by Mary Houston Publisher Comments Splendid pictorial documentation, carefully researched, of royal apparel, ecclesiastical dress and vestments, academic and legal garments, and civilian dress of all classes....
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Ancient European Costume and Fashion
by Herbert Norris Publisher Comments Clothing styles from prehistory to 1066 A.D. displayed in over 160 illustrations. Draped robes of classical Greece, the apparel of a 10th-century Byzantine emperor, garments of peasants, as well as footwear, hairstyles, jewelry, more....
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Paris Fashions of the 1890s: A Picture Sourcebook with 350 Designs, Including 24 in Full Color
by Stella Blum Publisher Comments Here are 350 haute couture designs from the 1890s reproduced from rare original issues of "The Young Ladies Journal," an English periodical devoted to French dress design. Introduction and captions....
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Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919-1939
by Mary Lynn Stewart Publisher Comments At a glance, high fashion and feminism seem unlikely partners. Between the First and Second World Wars, however, these forces combined femininity and modernity to create the new, modern French woman. In this engaging study, Mary Lynn Stewart reveals the...
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Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in the Tatler and the Spectator
by Erin Skye Mackie Publisher Comments In Market la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. She traces the commercial context in which they...
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Masterpieces of Women S Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries
by Aline Bernstein Publisher Comments Splendid view of elegant dresses, expertly rendered by noted theatrical designer, includes finely detailed illustrations of 32 complete costumes and three blouses, shown in color and black-and-white. Here are exquisitely embroidered, full-skirted dresses...
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinettes bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France....
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What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society
by Melissa (edt) Leventon Publisher Comments What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians...
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Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles: With 453 Illustrations, Medieval to Modern (Dover Pictorial Archive)
by Georgine De Courtais Publisher Comments More than 400 of the author's own drawings provide an authentic record of over 1,300 years of changing fashions in women's hairstyles and headwear in England. Finely detailed images — rendered from vintage sources — depict everything from...
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France....
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The Wearing of Costume: The Changing Techniques of Wearing Clothes and How to Move in Them from Roman Britain to the Second World War
by Ruth M Green Book News Annotation Dog stories for the war buff. Best we can say--and it is not a trivial compliment--is that few books cover the subject. On guard & scout dogs from WWI through Viet Nam. CiP shows an erroneous ISBN: 031-4. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR...
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Victorian & Edwardian Fashions for Women
by Kristina Harris Publisher Comments Over 450 color photos illustrate this exploration of Victorian fashion design for women. Illustrated dresses, waists, undergarments, and accessories of the 19th and early 20th century, including daywear, sportswear, and formalwear, will help collectors...
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Butterick's 1892 Metropolitan Fashions
by Butterick Synopsis Over 1,000 finely detailed illustrations: stylish cloaks, blouses, skirts, aprons and dresses for women; granny cloaks and cape collars for little girls, a little Fauntleroy costume for boys and much more. Captions....
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120 Great Fashion Designs, 1900-1950, CD-ROM and Book with CDROM (Dover Pictorial Archives)
by Tom Tierney Publisher Comments Fashions by Lanvin, Poiret, Worth, Adrian, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Balmain, and other prominent designers have been carefully researched and re-created for either computer or traditional cut-and-paste use. An invaluable reference for fashion...
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Victorian Costume for Ladies, 1860-1900
by Linda Setnik Publisher Comments With over 350 engaging nineteenth-century photographs, this book provides irrefutable documentation of American women's fashions from 1860-1900. Clothing is separated into nine time periods based upon fluctuations in style. Extensively researched using...
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Medieval and Renaissance Fashion: 90 Full-Color Plates
by Raphael Jacquemin Publisher Comments Taken from the Louvre and other museums, this incredible gallery of manuscript illustrations, reliefs, and effigies offers an intriguing look at fashions from 315 to 1815. Images include French soldiers, German knights, and figures such as the Duke of...
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Historic Fashion from Around the World CD-ROM and Book
by Pauquet Brothers Publisher Comments A magnificent panorama of fashion details what men and women of wealth were wearing from 1477 to 1868. Ninety-six full-color engravings depict dazzling, full-lenth portraits of such notables as Peter the Great, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I, the Doge of...
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What People Wore
by Douglas Gorsline Publisher Comments Fascinating panorama of styles -- from diaphanous gowns of Egyptian royalty to 1920s wardrobe of American flapper. Accessories and hairstyles. Illustrations....
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Fashion Show: Paris Style
by Didier Grumbach Publisher Comments A must-have for the fashion aficionado, Fashion Show explores the ideas and inspirations behind three centuries of Paris design. This is the world of fashion at its most exciting and glamorous, a visually stunning, widely accessible history and a...
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