Costume cavalcade: 689 examples of historic costume in colour;

Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1972-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Eyre Methuen Ltd [Published date: 1972]. Hard cover, 160 pp. Second Edition, 1975 reprint. Very good in very good dust jacket. Purple textured paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Wonderful color illustrations throughout. [From front jacket flap]. Why do people dress in the same way within a certain period, and why does fashion change so that costumes of different ages become so very dissimilar? The answer can be found in what may be called the style of a period, the style expressed in art and architecture, in furniture and indeed in every facet of living. It is natural for people to try to shape their own appearance so that they will fit into their surroundings. They do it by means of their clothes. A cavalcade such as this must show the costumes as they were worn by the men and women for whom they were made, otherwise they may appear as little more than elements of fancy dress. Colour, too, has an essential role. It distinguishes a period in dress as definitely as shape. The evidence for this book has been found in the art of every period from ancient Egypt to the present day. Nearly seven hundred illustrations in six colours, spread over ninety-six pages of plates, are based on original paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and fashion plates, presenting a record of the evolution of European dress unrivalled in richness and accuracy.Miss Henny Harald Hansen, who is in charge of the costumes at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, provides a full and illuminating commentary on the trends of fashion so lavishly displayed in the colour pages.The second edition contains new plates and text covering the development of costume from 1956 to 1970.