A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern by Picken, Mary Brooks

A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern

While most of us would have little difficulty in recognizing a buckle, hem, or seam, we might...
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Author: Mary Brooks Picken
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A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern by Picken, Mary Brooks

A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern

¥5,365

A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern

¥5,365
Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Format: Paperback
Language: English

While most of us would have little difficulty in recognizing a buckle, hem, or seam, we might be considerably more challenged if asked to identify a godet, a trilby, or a vamp. With this handy book at your fingertips, however, you can quickly find the definition of over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion.
From bateau necklines, bobs, and bustles to plackets, havelocks, and bavolets, terms are assembled alphabetically or in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, elements of design, and other style categories. In addition, over 950 clearly detailed illustrations depict stitches, weaves, laces, garments, collars, shoes, jewelry, hair styles, and other sartorial features.
This is the perfect reference for increasing fashion vocabularies, injecting a stimulating term or phrase in conversations about wearing apparel, or making articles written about clothing more understandable. Fashion writers, costume designers, manufacturers, buyers, sales people -- anyone interested in the history of fashion -- will welcome this thorough and comprehensive guidebook. Unique in its field and containing material not easily accessible elsewhere, it definitely has a place in the general reference library for quick identification purposes and for anyone concerned with the fashion field. -- Booklist

Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 06/15/1998
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.11w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780486402949

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