A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern Paperback - 1998
by Mary Brooks Picken
From the rear cover
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.
Dover (1999) unabridged republication of The Fashion Dictionary, published by Funk & Wagnall's, New York, 1957.
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- Title A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern
- Author Mary Brooks Picken
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition thus
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Date June 15, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780486402949 / 0486402940
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.11 x 0.89 in (23.37 x 15.52 x 2.26 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Textile fabrics - Dictionaries, Clothing and dress - Dictionaries
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-30715
- Dewey Decimal Code 746.920
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