Victorian Fashions: A Pictorial Archive, 965 Illustrations
- ISBN13: 9780486402215
- Condition: New
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Product Description
Panoramic display of evolving styles in women’s clothing—culled from vintage publications—ranges from ornate gowns of the mid-1800s, widened by hoop skirts, to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced balloon sleeves, bright colors, high-collared bodices, diminished bustles, and close-fitting skirts. Hundreds of delightful images of elegant dresses, lavishly decorated wide-brimmed hats, shoes, handbags, undergarments and much more. An invaluable reference for artists and illustrators and a delight for lovers of Victoriana and casual browsers.
Victorian Fashions: A Pictorial Archive, 965 Illustrations
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Deborah MacGillivray
August 19, 2010 at 3:26 am
I would rank this book just behind Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar, 1867-1898 (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Stella Blum and Full-Color Victorian Fashions : 1870-1893 by JoAnne Olian. If you have to be selected go with the first two before this one, but I still highly recommend this to round out the collection. More than 900 very detailed crisp drawing from the marvelous people at Dover Publishing again. They bring you inexpensive books that are a wealth of information, writers of period romance just cannot live without.
Rating: 4 / 5
Joseph A. Admire
August 19, 2010 at 4:45 am
Every student of 19th-century fashion needs to have six books from Dover Publications in his or her library:
- Victorian Fashions and Costumes from ‘Harper’s Bazar’, Stella Blum;
- Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from La Mode Illustree, Joanne Olian;
- Wedding Fashions 1860-1912, Joanne Olian;
- Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey, Alison Gernsheim;
- English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, C. Willett Cunnington;
- and this book.
Carol Grafton’s book is really more of an assemblage of pictures for illustrators than anything else, but what pictures! Over 900 B&W drawings lovingly display every little detail of the elaborate costumes of the Victorian and early Edwardian eras from the mid-1850′s to 1903. This book doesn’t have much in the way of text so it’s not as comprehensive a research resource as some of the others that I’ve mentioned, but as an auxiliary resource to the other books on the above list, it’s perfect.
Rating: 5 / 5