Victorian & Edwardian fashion
Subtitle: a photographic survey
By: by Alison Gernsheim.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Fashion -- History; Clothing and dress -- History; Fashion -- England -- History; Clothing and dress -- England -- History
Other titles: Victorian and Edwardian fashion.
Description: "Noted photo-historian documents bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices and crinolines as people actually wore them--from 1840 to 1914. 235 early photos show aristocrats and the middle class (as well as Oscar Wilde, Lily Langtry, G. B. Shaw, Queen Victoria, etc.). A commentary and annotations to the photos describe and identify the costumes."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 95-100.
Reprint. Originally published: Fashion and reality (1840-1914). London : Faber and Faber, 1963.
Includes index.