Taste and Fashion - From the French Revolution to the Present DayRead Books Ltd, 8 ene 2013 - 288 páginas This classic book contains a wealth of information on the taste and fashion trends of England from the French Revolution to the 1940s, and will prove a very interesting read for anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... nineteenth century, are sometimes ten to fifteen years out of date. With younger people we are on safer ground, as they tend naturally to be painted in their newest clothes, and are more likely to be in the fashion. On the other hand ...
... nineteenth century, are sometimes ten to fifteen years out of date. With younger people we are on safer ground, as they tend naturally to be painted in their newest clothes, and are more likely to be in the fashion. On the other hand ...
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... century into the tophat of the nineteenth. The abandonment of breeches and the adoption of trousers lay still some years in the future, and the change had obviously no connexion with the riding costume of the English country gentleman ...
... century into the tophat of the nineteenth. The abandonment of breeches and the adoption of trousers lay still some years in the future, and the change had obviously no connexion with the riding costume of the English country gentleman ...
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... century were not children's toys at all, but sample toilettes; but this was at best a somewhat clumsy method of ... nineteenth century—to realize this divergence very completely. It is a curious fact that by 1812 the English had ...
... century were not children's toys at all, but sample toilettes; but this was at best a somewhat clumsy method of ... nineteenth century—to realize this divergence very completely. It is a curious fact that by 1812 the English had ...
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... century they had established their preeminence, which they have held ever since. So far as men's clothes were concerned the nineteenth century belonged to the English. This preeminence was given its cachet by the rise of the dandies in ...
... century they had established their preeminence, which they have held ever since. So far as men's clothes were concerned the nineteenth century belonged to the English. This preeminence was given its cachet by the rise of the dandies in ...
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... nineteenth century. No doubt the French aristocrats and émigrés who returned to the land of their fathers with Louis XVIII were mistaken in believing that they could put back the clock to the privileged days before the Revolution. There ...
... nineteenth century. No doubt the French aristocrats and émigrés who returned to the land of their fathers with Louis XVIII were mistaken in believing that they could put back the clock to the privileged days before the Revolution. There ...
Índice
BOARDING THE YACHT 1873 | |
WOMAN OF FASHION | |
HAIR AND HATS | |
1895 1908 1920 1928 | |
CORSETS | |
1900 1904 1911 1928 1935 | |
LINGERIE | |
1888 1890 1935 | |
THE THEORY OF DÉCOLLETAGE | |
COLOURS AND MATERIALS | |
THE TWO BUSTLES AND THE ÆSTHETIC MOVEMENT VI THE NEW WOMAN | |
HIGH LIFE OR GARDEN PARTY AND CASINO | |
THE HOLBORN SKATING RINK 1876 | |
PAUL POIRET AND THE RUSSIAN BALLET | |
DECORATIVE UNITY OF AN EPOCH | |
WAR AND POSTWAR | |
TOILETTES DE VISITE PARIS 1911 | |
FURS | |
BATHING COSTUMES AND OTHER SPORTS CLOTHES | |
FASHIONS FOR | |
SOME CONCLUSIONS | |
FASHION AND THE SECOND WORLD | |
INDEX | |
COLOUR AND CARICATURE | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day James Laver Vista de fragmentos - 1945 |
Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day James Laver Vista de fragmentos - 1945 |
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