The Cut of Women's Clothes
Subtitle: 1600-1930
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Theatre Arts Book
Published: January 7, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780878300266
Subjects: Fashion design; Women's studies; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Tailoring (Women's); Fashion; Art & Art Instruction; History - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Dressmaking; Costume; History
First sentence: Women's fashions of the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign continued to be worn for a time after James I came to the throne; yet during the first quarter of the seventeenth century there came a period of transition bringing with it a gradual elimination of the earlier extravagances.