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Nineteenth-Century Women’s Fashion

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Author(s)	Felicity J. Warnes
Editor	Schiffer Publishing	Place	Pennsylvania
Year	2016	Pages	408
Measure	23x29 (cm)	Illustration	375 ill. colori n.t. - colour ills.
Binding	cart. edit. sovracc. ill. - hardcover with dust jacket	Conservazione	Nuovo - New
Language	Inglese - English Text	Weight	2200 (gr)
ISBN	0764350137	EAN-13	9780764350139

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Follow 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 an evolving art form, making this book an invaluable resource for historians, scholars, theater costume designers, artists,and fashion enthusiasts. (T-CA)