Archive for the Fashion Books Category

  • A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change

    Product DescriptionWhat accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children’s first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts. A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture…. Click Here to Read More

  • Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium

    Product DescriptionMore than 250 illustrations illustrate the significance and creative use of color in fashion illustrationFrom the first rough sketch pursuing the development of an idea into fabric choice and draping style, fashion design is an exercise in imagination and problem solving. When it comes to documenting the evolution of fashion as culture, we could safely say that illustration has become fashion design’s number one ambassador, covering a visual timeline of materials,…. Click Here to Read More

  • Perry s Department Store: A Buying Simulation for Juniors, Men s Wear,Children s Wear, & Home Fashion / Giftware

    Product DescriptionThis classic text continues to use the fictitious Perry s Department Store to bridge the gapbetween the principles of retail buying and mathematical formulas and concepts. Drawingon their experience, Videtec and Steele provide the tools for students to understandbuyer s responsibilities by walking them through the various steps a new buyer wouldtake to complete a six-month dollar plan and a merchandise assortment plan. The professionalperspective is emphasized even more…. Click Here to Read More

  • Art Deco Fashions Paper Dolls

    ISBN13: 9780486441580Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionHere is a spectacular review of Art Deco fashion, starting with the innovative work of Paul Poiret and Georges Barbier and continuing with the dramatic designs of Sonia Delaunay, Jeanne Lanvin, Jeanne Paquin, Chanel, and others. Two dolls and 28 costumes plus…. Click Here to Read More

  • Designer Knockoff: A Crime of Fashion

    ISBN13: 9780451212689Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionWhen fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable D.C., it’s more than a good story-it’s a chance to show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it’s not long before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in…. Click Here to Read More

  • Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday?: A Mother’s Guide to Sanity in Stilettos

    ISBN13: 9780345516374Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionLaura Bennett is not a soccer mom or a PTA mom or a helicopter mom—and she’s certainly not mother of the year. Another breed of mother entirely, Laura is surely more Auntie Mame than June Cleaver. As a busy mother of six, Laura is on an impossible mission: raising a…. Click Here to Read More

  • Authentic French Fashions of the Twenties: 413 Costume Designs from “L’Art Et La Mode”

    ISBN13: 9780486261874Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionOver 130 dazzling pages from famed fashion periodical featuring fashions for all occasions by the great French couturiers of the Twenties—Patou, Worth, Molyneux, Paquin, Vionnet, Lanvin and many more. Introduction and captions by editor, who is curator of Costume…. Click Here to Read More

  • Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets

    Product DescriptionFor any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry. From retailers in Sweden and the United Kingdom to producers in India and Turkey, Patrik Aspers focuses on branded garment…. Click Here to Read More

  • On Fashion

    Product DescriptionUntil recently, fashion was considered the “F-word” in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion’s discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessesantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom it is addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and tranformed? On Fashion explores the ways our…. Click Here to Read More

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