Fashion of the Decades: Home

Note: this is an ebook.
"Steele, director of the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, has crafted, with the help of 325 contributors, an authoritative introduction to fashion, the industry, and the issues that have defined the field. Some 640 articles describe the colorful facets of couture and textiles, from fabrics of chintz, corduroy, and feathers to such garb as aprons, bikinis, and prison dress. There are color plates and nearly 600 black-and-white illustrations.

Note: this is an ebook.
More than 400 designers, milliners, footwear designers, companies and textile houses are featured in this reference book. Entries are listed alphabetically and contain the following critical elements: biographical summary; primary and secondary bibliography, including articles and exhibition catalogs; and a signed, critical essay by an expert in the field.

The author provides detailed information on the life and works of every important fashion designer from 1840 onwards, with over one thousand entries, including couturiers, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers as well as photographers and illustrators.

From the first fashion style of the Egyptians to the emergence of "haute couture in the 20th century.

Five decades of people, fashions and stylesetters.

A detailed history and sourcebook of 20th-century fashion. From the styles of the early 1900s to those of today, John Peacock charts the development of women's fashion in all its aspects: couture wear, day wear, under-wear, leisure wear, evening wear, bridal wear and accessories.