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Nineteenth-Century Women´s Fashion
Felicity J Warnes
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Description for Nineteenth-Century Women´s Fashion
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 289 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1934.
Follows high-style couture trends over a 100-year period from 1800 to 1900, as illustrated in 374 color photographs of original, hand-colored fashion plates from the author's private collection. The 11 chapters (organized by decade) include a brief survey of the subtle changes in clothing design through each decade and a social history of the times. Follow the whims of fashion on this promenade through the 1800s, when high-society women sported beribboned toques and turbans and crinolines, capes, and extravagant sleeves. Based mostly on original French artwork, the fashion plates, which appeared in magazines of the day, also documentfashion illustration as ... Read more
Follows high-style couture trends over a 100-year period from 1800 to 1900, as illustrated in 374 color photographs of original, hand-colored fashion plates from the author's private collection. The 11 chapters (organized by decade) include a brief survey of the subtle changes in clothing design through each decade and a social history of the times. Follow the whims of fashion on this promenade through the 1800s, when high-society women sported beribboned toques and turbans and crinolines, capes, and extravagant sleeves. Based mostly on original French artwork, the fashion plates, which appeared in magazines of the day, also documentfashion illustration as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1934g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764350139
SKU
V9780764350139
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Ref
99-30
About Felicity J Warnes
Felicity J. Warnes, who lives in North London, England, has spent the past forty years collecting fashion plates and books on costume and couture, which she sells at her bookshop in North London and on her website, www.fjwarnes.co.uk.
Reviews for Nineteenth-Century Women´s Fashion
This picture book of 19th Century women's clothes is an invaluable resource for historians, scholars, theatre costume designers, artists & fashion enthusiasts. - David Aldous Cook, Antique & Collectors Trader