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Summary: Visual Feast
Review: I can not find a better expression to describe this book than this one: a real visual feast for readers.
I am amazed by the intricacies and delicate details of those fashions dating 300 years ago. And I am fascinated with the fine quality of the silk fabrics reflecting the elegance of that time.
Highly recommend to anyone who loves fashion.
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Summary: Beautiful and worth every penny
Review: I have a copy of the book. I love the photos with every page close up detail.Biggest and only complaint I have is that the book has images of garments clumped in each chapter, like "Stitching, Seams, Quilting and Cording", Buttons, Trimmings, "Applied Decoration", etc. What bothers me is that you don't get the overall image of a garment, but a lot of close up fragments of a garment. It would have been nice to see an overall image as well. The book also provides a basic sketch of each garment, even if the original garment is missing a section. This is not my time period for historical garments as a costumer, but the details just get me drooling every time I look at the book. Close ups of the embroideries are just to die for. All in wonderful full color large images the size of the book itself. The left page has the description, and the right page has the full image, and it is larger than 8.5" x 11". I don't have my ruler handy or I would measure it right now. Anyway, I think it was worth the full price I paid when it first came out in hb. I love it.
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