MBR: The Fashion Shelf
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Victorian Wedding Dress in the United States
Norma Lu Meehan and Mei Campbell
Texas Tech University Press
PO Box 41037, Lubbock, TX 79409-1037
9780896726611, $12.95 www.ttup.ttu.edu
Victorian Wedding Dress in the United States isn't for lending
libraries but provides collectors and fashion designers with a fun
gift in the form of a history through paper dolls. Any involved in
costume studies will find this provides a lovely colored set of bridal
dresses and draws on collections at the Northern Indiana Center for
History and the Museum of Texas Tech University for authentic
replicas.
20th Century Fashion
Jim Heimann and Alison A. Nieder
Taschen
9783836514613, $39.99 www.taschen.com
A hundred years of fashion ads pack an oversized, authoritative
presentation powerful in its fashion history scope and content. This
retrospective covers some 400 fashion ads from the Jim Heimann
Collection and uses imagery culled from a century of advertising to
document the world of fashion. From a timeline of events and trends to
tips on how events, design houses, retailers and films influenced
fashion's development, this is simply a 'must' for any serious college-
level arts library strong in fashion design and history!
70s Fashion
Ed. Jim Heimann
Taschen
9783822849378, $9.99 www.taschen.com
70s FASHION: VINTAGE FASHION AND BEAUTY ADS provides a powerful visual
collection of these ads, packing in pages of full color and black and
white representation of some of the best icons and ads of the times.
Any library strong in 1970s fashion history needs this fine visual
portrait.
100 Years of Fashion: 20th Century in Pictures
Press Association Images
Ammonite Press
166 High St., Lewes, E. Sussex, BN7 1XU, UK
9781906672263, $19.95 www.ammonitepress.com
100 Years of Fashion: 20th Century in Pictures provides decades of
pictorial history and styles, with some 300 images coming from the
archives of the Press Association to illustrate these changing fads.
Duotone and a peppering of color photos capture changing trends in
wedding dress, street clothes, and more, recording fashion from the
early 1900s to the present and offering a survey of both changing
styles and social attitudes perfect for any arts collection.
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