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Summary: Costume Designer's Heaven
Review: Absolutely the best resource for women's clothing in the 19th century. Includes photos and line drawings of actual clothes (all B&W in this edition, unfortunately). Most importanly, gives details on every aspect of clothing- from fabrics, trmis, shoes, under garments to hats, fans, and coats year-by-year. Also lists changes in each year's fashions. A must-have for those interested in Regency and/or Victorian eras, especially! It's my cosutme Bible!
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Summary: A Must-Have Resource for Costumers!
Review: Absolutely the best resource for women's clothing in the 19th century. Includes photos and line drawings of actual clothes (all B&W in this edition, unfortunately). Most importanly, gives details on every aspect of clothing- from fabrics, trmis, shoes, under garments to hats, fans, and coats year-by-year. Also lists changes in each year's fashions. A must-have for those interested in Regency and/or Victorian eras, especially! It's my cosutme Bible!
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Summary: A Must-Have Resource for Costumers!
Review: Absolutely the best resource for women's clothing in the 19th century. Includes photos and line drawings of actual clothes (all B&W in this edition, unfortunately). Most importanly, gives details on every aspect of clothing- from fabrics, trmis, shoes, under garments to hats, fans, and coats year-by-year. Also lists changes in each year's fashions. A must-have for those interested in Regency and/or Victorian eras, especially! It's my cosutme Bible!
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Summary: An amazing amount of detail
Review: Cunnington's year-by-year survey of fashionable English women's costume in the 19th century is replete with detail. The only flaw is the absence of color photographs, hampering the historian or recreationist who is attempting to ascertain the exact hue of "Solferino" or "Isabella". In addition, if you need a general reference for 19th century costume, or are interested in the attire of persons of the lower orders, you will have to look elsewhere.
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Summary: An amazing amount of detail
Review: Cunnington's year-by-year survey of fashionable English women's costume in the 19th century is replete with detail. The only flaw is the absence of color photographs, hampering the historian or recreationist who is attempting to ascertain the exact hue of "Solferino" or "Isabella". In addition, if you need a general reference for 19th century costume, or are interested in the attire of persons of the lower orders, you will have to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Overall, I was very pleased with this book.
Review: I am not a costumer. I am simply a person who is interested in 19th century British history. This book is a fabulous reference and definitely worth the $20 I paid for it.I was disappointed at the lack of color. The photographs (recent ones only, of course) and fashion plates were in black and white. I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in women's 19th century British fashion.
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Summary: Overall, I was very pleased with this book.
Review: I really like this book! The pictures are beautiful, as are the descriptions. Unfortunately, it doesn't neccesarily help me out! I wanted it for a research book on costume, but there are so many years and styles covered that it doesn't give me many specifics. If used in conjunction with another costume book, or if the buyer is just interested in general costume, it's fine. If the buyer is looking for something more detailed and specific, try another book!
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Summary: A bit too broad-based
Review: I really like this book! The pictures are beautiful, as are the descriptions. Unfortunately, it doesn't neccesarily help me out! I wanted it for a research book on costume, but there are so many years and styles covered that it doesn't give me many specifics. If used in conjunction with another costume book, or if the buyer is just interested in general costume, it's fine. If the buyer is looking for something more detailed and specific, try another book!
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Summary: Costume Designer's Heaven
Review: This book is an excellent reference for those who wish to study the fashion of English women's clothing in the nineteenth-century. Sumptuously illustrated, it also has helpful commentary about the clothing's details, including information about what influenced the design, materials used, the situation in which the garment would have been worn, and what type of person would have worn the garment. It is a wonderful reference for the costume designer or student of fashion. This is one of the most useful books for nineteenth-century fashion I have found.
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Summary: Inexpensive standard reference
Review: This thick, oversized paperback, profusely illustrated, is thecheapestand most comprehensive of the currently available 19th century clothing references. Black and white line drawings and photographs (for the latter part of the century) illustrate fashionable woman's attire. In many cases, details of construction are also given. The accompanying text includes an overview for each decade and minute description, year by year, of hairstyle, fabric, accessories, as well as the costumes themselves. Abundant quotation from original sources. Glossary of terms. Weaknesses (1) no attention is paid to middle and lower class woman's clothing, but this is an all too common fault. (2) No color plates, a real loss for a period when women's clothing achieved such distinctive, not to say, garish hues. Overall, this is a lot of book for the money, a good first reference for this period.
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