The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: July 18, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780571085941
Subjects: Fashion design; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Dressmaking; Art
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.