Seventeenth and eighteenth-century fashion in detail
By: Avril Hart and Susan North ; photographs by Richard Davis ; drawings by Leonie Davis
Contributors: North, Susan, 1956-; Davis, Richard, 1960-; Davis, Leonie; Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: V&A Pub.; Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781851775675
Subjects: Fashion; Catalogs; Fashion design; Clothing and dress; Victoria and Albert Museum; History
Other titles: 17th & 18th century fashion in detail; Fashion in detail from the 17th and 18th century.
Work titles: Historical fashion in detail from the 17th and 18th centuries
Description: This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V & A's superlative seventeenth and eighteenth-century fashion collection. Using an authoritative text, exquisite colour photography and line drawings of complete garments, the reader is allowed the unique opportunity to look closely at clothing, often too fragile to be on display.
Notes: Originally published as "Historical fashion in detail from the 17th and 18th centuries": London : V&A Pub., 1998.

First published in North America as "Fashion in detail from the 17th and 18th centuries": New York : Rizzoli, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223).
Table of contents: title: Stitching, seams, quilting, and cording; title: Gathers, pleats, and looped drapery; title: Collars, cuffs, and pockets; title: Buttons; title: Trimmings; title: Applied decoration; title: Slashing, pinking, and stamping; title: Knitting, lace, and openwork; title: Stomachers; title: Gloves and shoes.