Fashion in detail
Subtitle: 1700-2000
By: edited by Claire Wilcox
Contributors: Victoria and Albert Museum
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9781851777686
Subjects: Fashion design; Fashion; Clothing and dress; History
Description: "The V&A's renowned Fashion in Detail series has become essential reading for historians, costumiers, designers and fashion students alike and this impressive volume brings together for the first time, edited highlights from all the titles in the series. The V&A's Fashion Collection is the largest and most comprehensive in the world, housing unrivalled collections of dress, accessories, shoes and hats, from exquisite seventeenth-century gowns to twentieth century daywear and couture. This chronological survey covers four hundred years of fashion, drawn from the V&A's five best-selling volumes: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail, Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail, World Dress Fashion in Detail, Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail and Underwear Fashion in Detail. With concise and authoritative texts by V&A curators, glorious colour photography and specially commissioned line drawings of complete garments, the reader is allowed the unique opportunity to look in the closest possible detail at the garments and revel in their breathtaking range of colour, texture and construction."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Original texts by Avril Hart and Susan North: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail ; Lucy Johnston: Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail ; Clair Wilcox and Valerie D. Mendes: Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail ; Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden and Verity Wilson: World Dress Fashion in Detail ; Eleri Lynn: Underwear Fashion in Detail"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Claire Wilcox; title: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century:; title: Stitching, seams, quilting & cording ;; title: Gathers, pleats & looped drapery ;; title: Collars, cuffs & pockets ;; title: Buttons ;; title: Trimmings ;; title: Applied decoration ;; title: Slashing, pinking & stamping ;; title: Knitting, lace & openwork ;; title: Stomachers ;; title: Gloves & shoes --; title: Nineteenth Century:; title: The male image ;; title: Historicism ;; title: Romantic styles ;; title: Exoticism ;; title: Innovations ;; title: Construction details ;; title: The natural world ;; title: Underwear --; title: Twentieth Century:; title: Seams ;; title: Gathers, tucks & pleats ;; title: Collars, cuffs & pockets ;; title: Buttons ;; title: Bows ;; title: Beads & sequins ;; title: Applied decoration ;; title: Underwear ;; title: Exoticism.