From Top Hats to Baseball Caps, from Bustles to Blue Jeans: Why We Dress the Way We Do
by Perl, Lila; Evans, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0899198724
- ISBN 13
- 9780899198729
- Seller
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Harwinton, Connecticut, United States
Item Price
A$23.24A$17.43
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Clarion Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0899198724 . Hardcover, 118 pages in fine condition. Fine dustjacket with slight wear on jacket edges. 1st edition, 1st printing. From TopHats to Baseball Caps, From Bustles to blue Jeans. Why we dress the way we do. Carefully researched survey that shows us fashion changes were more than just a mirror of history. Photographs of period fashions take us back to the late 1800s through the early 1900s. Handsome line drawings accurately detail the panorama of dress from early hunter-gathers to the present day.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavender Path Antiques and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001979
- Title
- From Top Hats to Baseball Caps, from Bustles to Blue Jeans: Why We Dress the Way We Do
- Author
- Perl, Lila; Evans, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0899198724
- ISBN 13
- 9780899198729
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0899198724, CLOTHING, DRESS, JUVENILE, LITERATURE, NONFICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Fashion;
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About the Seller
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
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