Vintage Clothing Costumes 1880-1980 Fabrics Styles Construction...../ Book

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Lavishly illustrated in color and black-and-white, this in-depth text is a pictorial guide to vintage women’s clothing and accessories created between 1880-1980.
VINTAGE CLOTHING 1880-1980 Third Edition
by Maryanne Dolan, Books Americana, AL, 1995.
This comprehensive book presents antique clothing, celebrity wardrobes and turn-of-the-century women’s fashions in color and black-and-white photographs, and reproduced sales advertisements and catalogs.  The reader may become acquainted with the famous Gibson Girl, with the accessories of Joan Crawford’s collection, with pattern-book depiction’s and so much more.  Accessories such as fans, hats, hair clasps and other refinements also receive attention.  This book will certainly appeal to the collector of antique clothing and will make a great addition to any museum library, which holds a clothing collection.  In addition, the writer of historical fiction or non-fiction would find this an enormous resource for describing costume and fashion wares.
Heavy 8.5” x 11” softback in very good condition.  296 pages.
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