Out-of-style : an illustrated guide to vintage fashions, 19th-21st centuries /
Winner of four Best Book Awards, this volume of style clues for fashion detectives weaves fascinating elements of social history into tales of how, why and when fashions evolved. Hundreds of sequential illustrations accompany highly readable, and often humorous, comments and explanations by an exper...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
[2018]
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
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| Summary: | Winner of four Best Book Awards, this volume of style clues for fashion detectives weaves fascinating elements of social history into tales of how, why and when fashions evolved. Hundreds of sequential illustrations accompany highly readable, and often humorous, comments and explanations by an experienced costume designer. Ranging decade by decade through the 19th and 20th centuries, this book offers an easy way to date photographs and clothing, making the book an invaluable resource for costumers, vintage fashion enthusiasts and genealogists. This revised edition includes new photographs. |
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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an updated and revised republication of the work originally published by Flashback Publishing, Mission Viejo, California, in 2013." |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780486819884 0486819884 |