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Loading... A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern (1957)by Mary Brooks Picken
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book tells all types of fashion. It also tell you how to hem your clothes, the seam in your clothes. It gives you more than enough details about clothes and fashion. It talks about style and the material of clothes. It 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. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Fascinating, fact-filled compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories. Enhanced with over 750 clearly detailed illustrations, this comprehensive guide will be welcomed by writers, designers, and historians. No library descriptions found. |
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