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 Dress in Detail From Around the World
By
Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden & Verity Wilson
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Dress in Detail from Amazon.co.uk
or from Amazon.com.
 Are
you interested in clothes? If you are this is the book for you.
The book looks at
clothes from around the world and reflects the wide range held
in the Victoria & Albert Museum's extensive collection. In
date they range from roughly the 19th century to the present day
and include everything from those made from hand woven cloth to
the uniforms worn by the seamen on the Hong Kong ferry.
The book looks at
the details of dress, as the title says, and these help in the
interpretation of the clothes.
Each article of clothing
chosen is illustrated by one or more colour photographs and there
are also line drawings of each piece illustrating how they were
constructed and the most important features.
Take a look at some
of the amazing embroidery used on some clothes. Others have applied
decoration in the form of small pieces of mirror, silk, silver
or gold cord or pompoms. Then there is the dress from many parts
of the world that make use of extravagant and and complicated
pleats and gathers.
If you are interested
in clothes design, world culture or even just clothes in general,
buy this book. It is absolutely fascinating.
Quick Facts
Title: Dress in Detail
from Around the World
ISBN: 1851773770
Author: Rosemary
Crill, Jennifer Wearden & Verity Wilson
Publisher: V
& A Publications
Number of pages: 221
Price: UK
£30
Copyright © 2002 by Carol Fisher All Rights Reserved
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