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9788437607320 | 9 edition (Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2004), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Book by Laver, James
Product Description: Late in the 18th century, English children's apparel began to look different from that worn by their elders. The reason, says writer James Laver in his introduction, is that someone finally realized children were different! This engaging book records those changes, with illustrations depicting styles at five- or ten-year intervals, from 1775 to 1920...read more
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9780486429847 | Dover Pubns, September 19, 2003, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Late in the 18th century, English children's apparel began to look different from that worn by their elders.
\The vagaries of fashion throughout the ages are a source of endless interest, not only as indication of our infinite capacity for invention, but also because of the relationship of costume to shifting cultural patterns. Laver presents in this classic study the underlying motives of fashion as well as a survey of the history of costume. He describes the means which have been adopted to satisfy the three functions of clothes: protection, expression of the personality by sartorial display, and attractiveness to others. The momentous invention of the needle (some 40,000 years ago), making possible the sewing together of pelts, and the subsequent introduction of weaving, launched the development of costume as we know it. All the major historical landmarks -- the Renaissance, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the emancipation of women, the two world wars -- wrought profound changes in attitudes to dress: with matchless skill and panache Laver related the development of costume and fashion to these social changes. A new final chapter by Christina Probert brings the history up to the present day [sic] with a detailed discussion of the enormous variety of postwar styles, including the New Look, the mini, and punk-influenced clothes. James Laver (1899-1975) was keeper of the Departments of Prints and Drawings and of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1938 until 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as “the man in England who made the study of costume respectable”. Laver is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the field of fashion history, an interest in which emerged through a desire to date images accurately through the clothing depicted within. Laver defined the relationships between dress design and other applied arts, and discussed the influence of economic and social factors upon the development of fashionable taste.
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9780500204122 | 5th edition (Thames & Hudson, June 1, 2012), cover price $24.95
9780500203484 | 4 sub edition (Thames & Hudson, June 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: \The vagaries of fashion throughout the ages are a source of endless interest, not only as indication of our infinite capacity for invention, but also because of the relationship of costume to shifting cultural patterns.
9780500202661 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | also contains The Life and Art of Archie Boyd Teater | About this edition: Uses drawings, paintings, and photographs to help illustrate the history of fashion in ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, and modern Europe
Product Description: Outstanding reference spans 300 years of fashion history â from the extravagant costumes of the Stuart period to such innovations as cycling knickerbockers for late 19th century women. Over 400 illustrations (including 28 plates in full color) provide important details of hair styles, beards, hats, and cravats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780486412399 | Dover Pubns, October 27, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Outstanding reference spans 300 years of fashion history â from the extravagant costumes of the Stuart period to such innovations as cycling knickerbockers for late 19th century women.
Hardcover:
9780405089657 | Ayer Co Pub, February 1, 1987, cover price $23.95 | also contains The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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9780195203790 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 314 PLATES 58 IN COLOR,286 PAGES WITH INDEX.
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9780671165215 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1967, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 1000 illustrations depict the evolution of costume from 1 A.
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