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Historic and Modern
by Picken, Mary Brooks
This fascinating, fact-filled compendium is a quick and ready reference defining over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines, bobs and bustles to plackets, trilbys and vamps, the individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, elements of design, and other style categories. Over 750 clearly detailed illustrations depict stitches, weaves, laces, garments, collars, shoes, jewelry, coiffeurs, and other distinctive sartorial features. Designed to increase fashion vocabularies, to make fashion talk more stimulating and articles written about clothing more understandable, this unique and comprehensive guidebook-with a profusion of material not easily available elsewhere-will not only be welcomed by fashion writers and designers, but will also be invaluable to anyone attempting to create historically accurate costumes for motion pictures, television, and theatrical presentations.
Unabridged republication of The Fashion Dictionary, published by Funk & Wagnall's, New York, 1957. Introduction. Index. Over 750 black-and-white line illustrations. 207 halftones. 446pp. 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", November 1998, Paperbd.
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