Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0486499502
Thirty pages of fashion highlight the distinctive, daring styles of the Jazz Age. Full-page images feature models of sporty and casual outfits plus formal wear trimmed with fringe, beading, and sequins.
Author : Daniel Milford-Cottam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1784422045
More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade devoted to newness and freshness. The British people, rebuilding their lives and wardrobes, demanded modern materials, vibrant patterns and exciting prints inspired by scientific discoveries and modern art. Despite the influence of glamorous Paris couture led by Dior, home-grown fashion labels including Horrockses and the young Queen Elizabeth's couturier Norman Hartnell had an equally great, if not greater impact on British style. This book, written by an assistant curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a fascinating look back to the days when post-war Britain developed a fresh sense of style.
Author : Leatrice Eiseman
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811877566
Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.
Author : Carol Schmidt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486782034
Portraits of young women reflect the style that made artist Harrison Fisher popular at the turn of the 20th century. More than 30 ready-to-color illustrations depict ladies at play and in repose.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : New York : Bowker
Page : 1572 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Atelier Bachwitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486489434
This fine reproduction of a 1929 French catalog features fashions for all occasions, with 54 full-page color plates that showcase everything from chiffon promenade dresses to a white alpaca jumper and a silk-and-lace evening gown. A rare resource of authentic period styles for designers, costume historians, and collectors of vintage apparel.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2024-04-26
Category :
ISBN : 9180948650
George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
Author : Alison Matthews David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472577744
From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns. Fabulously gory and gruesome, Fashion Victims takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the lethal history of women's, men's and children's dress, in myth and reality. Drawing upon surviving fashion objects and numerous visual and textual sources, encompassing louse-ridden military uniforms, accounts of the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde's half-sisters and dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental strangulation by entangled scarf; the book explores how garments have tormented those who made and wore them, and harmed animals and the environment in the process. Vividly chronicling evidence from Greek mythology to the present day, Matthews David puts everyday apparel under the microscope and unpicks the dark side of fashion. Fashion Victims is lavishly illustrated with over 125 images and is a remarkable resource for everyone from scholars and students to fashion enthusiasts.
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486402215
Panoramic display of evolving styles ranges from hoop-skirted gowns of the mid-1800s to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced diminished bustles and close-fitting skirts. "A superb resource." — History in Review.
