How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781350172210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Lydia Edwards

Opis

With lavish color images and commentary on the key features of every major dress style across five centuries, How to Read a Dress is the ultimate guide to how fashions change and the ideal tool for identifying historical styles.

Recenzje

This comprehensive, inclusive and updated guide to dress history is richly illustrated in full colour and is supplemented with detailed annotations that identify the key stylistic trends from 1550 to 2020 - making it an essential text for the novice fashion historian. Ingrid Mida, Author of The Dress Detective and Reading Fashion in Art

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction 1. 1550 - 1600 2. 1600 - 16993. 1710 - 17904. 1790 - 18375. 1837 - 18696. 1870 - 1889 7. 1890 - 19168. 1918 - 19299. 1930 - 194610. 1947 - 195911. 1960 - 197912. 1980 - 2020Glossary of TermsNotesBibliographyPhotographic CreditsIndexList of Fashion Designers

O autorze

Lydia Edwards is a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.