How To Read A Dress

Author : Lydia Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350172235
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Dress written by Lydia Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an appealing and accessible guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history – as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This new edition includes additional styles to illustrate and explain the journey between one style and another; larger images to allow closer investigation of details of dress; examples of lower and working-class, as well as middle-class, clothing; and a completely new chapter covering the 1980s to 2020. The latter demonstrates how the late 20th century and early 21st century firmly left the dress behind as a requirement, but retained it as a perennially popular choice and illustrates how far the traditional boundaries of 'the dress' have been pushed (even including reference to a newly non-binary appreciation of the garment), and the intellectual shifts in the way women's fashion is both inspired and inspires. With these new additions, How to Read a Dress, revised edition, presents a complete and up-to-date picture of 'the dress' in all its forms, across the centuries, and taking into account different sartorial and social experiences. It is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.

Author : Lydia Jenny Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474285919
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Dress written by Lydia Jenny Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2020 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to read a dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history -- as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion"--Publisher's description.

Author : Lydia Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474286240
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Dress written by Lydia Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history – as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.

Author : Lydia Jenny Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781350172258
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Dress written by Lydia Jenny Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With lavish color images and commentary on the key features of every major dress style across five centuries, How to Read a Dress is the ultimate guide to how fashions change and the ideal tool for identifying historical styles"--

Author : Lydia Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350071188
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Suit written by Lydia Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Suit is an authoritative visual guide to the under-explored area of men's fashion across four centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history – as well as how menswear has varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their Chesterfield from their Ulster coat. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' menswear, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.

Author : Abby Williams May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress written by Abby Williams May and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lydia Jenny Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350071179
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Suit written by Lydia Jenny Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Suit is an authoritative visual guide to the under-explored area of men's fashion across four centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history - as well as how menswear has varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their Chesterfield from their Ulster coat. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' menswear, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion."--

Author : Ingrid E. Mida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350032719
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Fashion in Art written by Ingrid E. Mida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the CSA Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2021 Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art. From the stylization of the body to subtle textile embellishments and richly symbolic colors, dress tells a story and provides clues as to the cultural beliefs of the time in which artworks were produced. This concise and accessible book provides a step-by-step guide to analysing dress in art, including paintings, photographs, drawings and art installations. The first section of the book includes an introduction to visual analysis and explains how to 'read' fashion and dress in an artwork using the checklists. The second section offers case studies which demonstrate how artworks can be analysed from the point of view of key themes including status and identity, modernity, ideals of beauty, gender, race, globalization and politics. The book includes iconic as well as lesser known works of art, including work by Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, Thomas Gainsborough, James Jacques Tissot, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, Kent Monkman and many others. Reading Fashion in Art is the perfect text for students of fashion coming to art history for the first time as well as art history students studying dress in art and will be an essential handbook for any gallery visitor. The step-by-step methodology helps the reader learn to look at any work of art that includes the dressed or undressed body and confidently develop a critical analysis of what they see.

Author : Abby Williams May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress written by Abby Williams May and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abby W. May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331971856
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress written by Abby W. May and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dress: A Paper Read Before the Association for the Advancement of Women So many good and wise things have been said about dress that one is tempted to dismiss the subject as well-nigh exhausted; and yet that can hardly be while Fashion holds such strange sway as she does today, regardless alike of good taste, of sound sense, or of any lofty principle. Or if, indeed, all the good things have been said, it seems needful to recall them over and over again, until, by line upon line, and precept upon precept, they shall make themselves heard and understood. I trust I may be pardoned for saying that I believe there is no subject more needing to be discussed by right-minded women to-day, than this very one of which I speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.