Patterns of Fashion 2 focuses on the eighty-year period preceding the Second World War. Beginning with a day dress from c. 1861-3 from the London Museum and ending with a 1938 Evening dress from the V&A costume historian and researcher Janet Arnold traces period and style and draws up patters from the original garments on grid paper with construction instructions. This is introduced by excerpts and reproductions from fashion magazines of the period. Contains 226 black and white illustrations. 34 patterns.
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Patterns of Fashion 2 focuses on the eighty-year period preceding the Second World War. Beginning with a day dress from c. 1861-3 from the London Museum and ending with a 1938 Evening dress from the V&A costume historian and researcher Janet Arnold traces period and style and draws up patters from the original garments on grid paper with construction instructions. This is introduced by excerpts and reproductions from fashion magazines of the period. Contains 226 black and white illustrations. 34 patterns.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 14x0x10; Volume 2. Tight and unmarked except for ownership ink to first page. Large oblong format softcover. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
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Good; Softcover; 3rd Edition; Covers are moderately shelfworn and edgworn with a number of small thumb-creases; Name on the front endpaper, otherwise endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large, Oblong Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; Oliver green covers with drawings of dresses, and title in white lettering; 1982, MacMillan Publishing; 88 pages; "Patterns of Fashion 2, Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction, " by Janet Arnold.
