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Author: Linda Przybyszewski
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-04-29
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0465080472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the women who taught Americans how to dress in the first half of the 20th century—and whose lessons we’d do well to remember today.
Author: Jane Ashelford
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780707803364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an invaluable insight into lifestyles that have disappeared. Choice of dress at any point in time is determined by a number of factors, such as social and economic pressures, moral codes, technical advances, influence of designers and artisitc movements, and the vagaries of individual taste.
Author: Jane Ashelford
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an unparalleled insight into lifestyles that have disappeared forever.
Author: Linda Przybyszewski
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2014-04-29
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0465036716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A prize-winning dressmaker and history professor discusses how modern women have lost the fashion sense and ability to professionally, appropriately and flatteringly and describes how the Dress Doctors from the first half of the twentieth century helped women look their best. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Jane Ashelford
Publisher: Anova Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781905400799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an unparalleled insight into lifestyles that have disappeared forever. Choice of dress has always been governed by a series of influences – social and economic, artistic and technical – and, of course, the vagaries of individual taste. Jane Ashelford has used the National Trust’s stunning costume and textile collections as well as its historic house portraits, family correspondence, diaries and household papers to produce a fascinating account of the history of dress over the past four centuries
Author: Aileen Ribeiro
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780300062878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dress is the most fleeting of the arts, subject to the arbitrary dictates of fashion. It is also, however, the art that relates most closely to our lives, both as a reflection of our self-image and, in the words of Louis XIV, as 'the mirror of history'. This handsome book examines English and French fashion from 1750 to 1820 by studying the art of the period, and it shows how changes in dress reflected social, political and cultural developments in the two countries. Closely analysing a wide range of visual sources - including portraits and history painting, sculpture, drawings, caricatures and fashion plates, by such artists as Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, David and Ingres - Aileen Ribeiro describes the development of fashion during this period.
Author: C. Hughes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-01-29
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 023028776X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry James was fascinated by clothing and dress. This book examines, for the first time, the role of dress in reinforcing thematic and symbolic patterns in James's fictional world. Hughes traces a development from the significance of dress in discussion of 'the American Girl' in the early works, through dress as an indicator of social position, to the emergence of the more unstable and threatening aspects of dress, which culminate in the strange case of the coat of changing colours in The Sense of the Past.
