Victorian Fashion
$35.49
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
22 March 2016
Summary
Victorian Fashion: A Colorful Journey Through the 19th Century
The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century clothing was so wide-ranging and decorative.
We might unfairly think gentlemen’s costume to be rather plain and uniform, but this is more by contrast to the overwhelmi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780747815082 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0747815089 |
| Series: | Shire Library |
| Author: | Jayne Shrimpton |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Shire Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 22 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm x 8mm |
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Victorian Fashion is amazingly comprehensive. Anyone writing Victorian fiction will appreciate a copy. Anyone interested in day-to-day Victorian life will thoroughly enjoy dipping in and out.
Victorian Fashion is amazingly comprehensive… Anyone writing Victorian fiction will appreciate a copy. Anyone interested in day-to-day Victorian life will thoroughly enjoy dipping in and out. * Your Family History *
About The Author
Jayne Shrimpton
Jayne Shrimpton is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist with an MA in the History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London). She has many years’ experience analysing historical images and is well known for her dress history and photograph books, magazine articles, lectures and photo-dating events.
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