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Accessorizing the Bride
Norma Shepard
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Description for Accessorizing the Bride
The changing image of brides, with an emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories set in historical context, with notations on design, fabrication, embellishment, provenance, and estimated current value. A must have for fashion collectors, costumers, dealers, designers, and historians. Num Pages: 213 pages, 600 color & 20 antique photos. BIC Classification: WCP; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1398.
Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, this romantic journey through fifteen decades of bridal fashion offers a comprehensive, yet intimate, look at wedding costume c.1860 to the present day. Using original wedding portraits and hundreds of full color photographs, this enchanting book chronicles the changing image of brides, from petticoats and parasols associated with Victorian bustle gowns, to late 1990s bustiers and pashminas, with emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories that add finishing touches to each unique and timeless style. It is a look over our shoulder at those brides of the past, a tribute to the skills of their ... Read more
Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, this romantic journey through fifteen decades of bridal fashion offers a comprehensive, yet intimate, look at wedding costume c.1860 to the present day. Using original wedding portraits and hundreds of full color photographs, this enchanting book chronicles the changing image of brides, from petticoats and parasols associated with Victorian bustle gowns, to late 1990s bustiers and pashminas, with emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories that add finishing touches to each unique and timeless style. It is a look over our shoulder at those brides of the past, a tribute to the skills of their ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764321856
SKU
V9780764321856
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About Norma Shepard
Norma Shephard, a freelance writer and public speaker, is known as Canadas Hat Lady for her efforts in developing the Mobile Millinery Museum, home to over 2000 historical hats and thousands of 19th and 20th century costume artifacts. She is a well-known Canadian television personality.
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