Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919

Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919

Author: Kathleen Mabel La Barre

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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"This publication gives an overview of the characteristic of various items of women's apparel from 1910 through 1919. This is not a price guide but rather a reference to help you date your own vintage apparel and research the clothes of the end of the Edwardian era to the beginning the of the nineteen-twenties"--Page 4 of cover.


Classic French Fashions of the Twenties

Classic French Fashions of the Twenties

Author: Atelier Bachwitz

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486489434

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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.


Fashion and Costume in American Popular Culture

Fashion and Costume in American Popular Culture

Author: Valerie Oliver

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1996-09-24

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0313033269

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Providing a convenient and unique look at fashion and costume literature and how it has developed historically, this volume discusses monographic and reference literature and provides information on periodicals, research centers, and costume museums and collections. It also provides a new way of looking at the literature through a database of 58 Library of Congress subject headings. It covers topics from jeans to wedding dresses and features popular examples of how clothing is used and reflected in our culture through the literature discussed. Of interest to scholars, students, and anyone curious about the unique power clothing holds in our lives. Various types of reference sources are discussed including other guides to the literature, encyclopedia, dictionaries, biographical dictionaries, specialized bibliographies, and indexing and abstracting services. Electronic CD-ROM and online databases equivalents are included in the presentation of indexing and abstracting services with major networks such as OCLC, RLIN, Lexis/Nexis, and Dialog mentioned as well. In addition a list of 123 research centers, mainly libraries, is provided and arranged geographically by state, some 176 costume museums and collections of costumes located at colleges and universities are listed alphabetically, and a list of 278 periodicals on fashion, costume, clothing and related topics is provided. A database of some 58 clothing and accessory subject headings is analyzed in the Worldcat database with the literature of the top ten specific clothing and accessory subject terms limited to media publication format are covered. Additionally, histories of costume and fashion in the U.S. and works which concentrate on psychological, sociological or cultural aspects are outlined. An appendix, including the clothing and accessory database, and author and subject indexes conclude the volume.


A Decade of French Fashion, 1929-1938

A Decade of French Fashion, 1929-1938

Author: Mary Carolyn Waldrep

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-08-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 048679783X

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More than 100 selections of day and evening wear from full-color French catalogs produced for the international market document changes in fashion from the stock market crash to the dawn of WWII.