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Subtitle: an illustrated guide to vintage fashions : 19th-21st centuries
By: written & illustrated by Betty Kreisel Shubert
Edition: 2nd edition, Dover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780486819884
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fashion; Clothing and dress; Pictorial works; History
Description: "Winner of four Best Book Awards, this volume of style clues for fashion detectives weaves fascinating elements of social history into tales of how, why, and when fashions evolved. Hundreds of sequential illustrations accompany highly readable--and often humorous--comments and explanations by an experienced costume designer. Ranging decade by decade through the 19th and 20th centuries, this book offers an easy way to date photographs and clothing, making the book an invaluable resource for costumers, vintage fashion enthusiasts, and genealogists. This revised edition includes new photographs"--
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an updated and revised republication of the work originally published by Flashback Publishing, Mission Viejo, California, in 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index.