Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail The 17th and 18th Centuries

Name: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail The 17th and 18th Centuries
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ISBN: 9781851775675

ISBN-10: 1851775676

ISBN-13: 9781851775675

Edition: 2009

Authors: Avril Hart, Susan North

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Now available from Abrams, this popular book offers a rare, close-up look at the exquisite, labor-intensive details seen in fine historical clothing. Perfect decorative seams, minute stitching, knife-sharp pleats, and voluptuous drapery-all are here, alongside more unusual techniques such as stamping, pinking, and slashing. Most of these effects cannot be replicated by machine, yet many of today's fashion designers take their inspiration from the past, adapting these details to a more contemporary idiom, and to the realities of modern manufacturing. Drawing from the Victoria and Albert Museum's world-famous collections, the book contains a gallery of exquisite photographs, accompanied by…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: V&A Publishing
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.87" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English