Book Description
Introduction -- Dictionary -- Appendix A: Garment types -- Appendix B: Garment by country -- Appendix C: Garment types by era
Author : Elizabeth J. Lewandowski
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Design
ISBN : 0810840049
Introduction -- Dictionary -- Appendix A: Garment types -- Appendix B: Garment by country -- Appendix C: Garment types by era
Author : Ruth Turner Wilcox
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN :
The dictionary contains more than 3,200 entries on all aspects of costume. Articles of clothing from all over the world and from all periods of history are included. More than 2,000 drawings accompany the text, illustrating every aspect of the subject.
Author : Stephanie Curtis Davies
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Costume
ISBN :
Stephanie Davis has combined her painting and art teaching with research into costumes as depicted through the centuries. Dozens of carefully drawn and detailed illustrations embellish the text and give a visual dimension. She includes lists of couturiers and designers, costume collections and exhibitions of ancient civilisations.--[book cover].
Author : Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486141608
Compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, words are grouped alphabetically according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories. Over 750 illustrations.
Author : James R. Planche
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486145336
Thousands of terms associated with apparel worn in the principal countries of Europe appear in this extensive and convenient reference. Alphabetically arranged, the profusely illustrated volume features over 1,300 detailed line drawings.
Author : Valerie Cumming
Publisher : Berg
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1847887384
- What is an earthquake gown? - Who wore eelskin masher trousers? - What did the word "dudes" mean in the 16th century? A Dictionary of English Costume by C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard was originally published in 1960. A monumental achievement and encyclopaedic in scope, it was a comprehensive catalogue of fashion terms from the mid-medieval period up to 1900. It was reissued and updated several times, for the last time in 1976. For decades it has served as a bible for costume historians. The Dictionary of Fashion History completely updates and supplements the Cunningtons' landmark work to bring it up to the present day. Featuring additional terms and revised definitions, this new edition represents an essential reference for costume historians, students of fashion history, or anyone involved in creating period costume for the theatre, film or television. It also is fascinating reading for those simply interested in the subject. Clear, concise, and meticulous in detail, this essential reference answers countless questions relating to the history of dress and adornment and promises to be a definitive guide for generations to come.
Author : Francesca Sterlacci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 1442239093
From the first animal skin body coverings, to today’s high fashion collections, fashion has held an important role in the evolution of mankind. The fashion industry has, and continues to make, major contributions to our cultural and social environment. It is an industry that responds to our inherent longing for tribal belonging, our socio-economic needs, individual lifestyles, status stratification and profession apparel requirements. The fashion industry is fast-paced, complex and ever changing, in response to consumer needs. Throughout the world, vast numbers of people contribute to this industry, each with the shared goal of supplying an end product of a particular price point directed at a target consumer. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,400 cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the fashion industry.
Author : R. T. Wilcox
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Cecil Willett Cunnington
Publisher : Plays
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Judith Clark
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Design
ISBN :
In this deeply idiosyncratic collaboration between a psychoanalyst and a costume curator, Adam Phillips re-describes dress in terms of anxiety, wish and desire, while Judith Clark's installations raise issues of equivalence with Phillips' definitions and bring garments and other items from the Victoria and Albert Museum's archive to life in unexpected ways. Published in parallel with an Artangel commission at Blythe House, location of the V&A's vast reserve collections, and designed by Studio Frith, The Concise Dictionary of Dress examines the nature of dictionaries, archives and dress curation and adds a stunning visual essay recording two overnight tours through Blythe House by renowned photographer Norbert Schoerner. Phillips' definitions for words commonly associated with fashion and appearance - such as armoured, conformist, essential, provocative - were paired with eleven stations created by Clark on a walk through this vast building, from its rooftop to an underground coal bunker. Here in print, extending beyond the works at Blythe House, Phillips adds more words, more definitions and an overarching essay asking broader questions about what dictionaries are, how we use them and why they matter. Judith Clark herself also presents a written analysis of the Dictionary in response to questions posed anonymously by authorities in fields as varied as cultural theory, fashion history, arts curation and architecture, as well as a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of references used in creating the installations.