num_pages: 128
description: This book presents more than 2000 illustrations of shoes hats and fashion accessories reproduced directly from now rare periodicals and catalogs from the 1850s to 1940. It comprises an invaluable pictorial survey for the fashion historian designer and enthusiast as well as a practical source of illustrations for permission-free use by artists and craftspeople.The sources of these illustrations include major American British and European fashion periodicals of the Godey's Lady Book  Peterson's Magazine  Harper's Bazar  La Mode Illustre  L'Art et la Mode  Der Bazar  The Delineator  and others as well as such general interest periodicals as Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper  Harper's Weekly  The Youth's Companion  and Life . Many illustrations come from trade catalogs of such merchants as Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck &amp; Co. Jordan Marsh &amp; Co. N. B. Holden Artistic Footwear and a score of others.Arranged chronologically the plates present an overview of 90 years of fashion evolution of footwear millinery and such accessories as gloves scarves purses handkerchiefs and more.
language: English
title: Shoes, Hats and Fashion Accessories: A Pictorial Archive, 1850-1940
publisher: Dover Publications