- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: National Trust; First Edition edition (1 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0707801850
- ISBN-13: 978-0707801858
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 25.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an invaluable insight into lifestyles that have disappeared. Choice of dress at any point in time is determined by a number of factors, such as social and economic pressures, moral codes, technical advances, influence of designers and artisitc movements, and the vagaries of individual taste. The rich resources of the National Trust have been used by Jane Ashelford to produce this history of dress over the past 400 hundred years. The resources examined include family correspondances, diaries, inventories and household papers and many of the Trust's properties have their own costume and textile collections. The author looks at the social aspects of dress: how styles were conveyed, how and where materials were purchased, what all levels of society wore, from duke to serving boy, from widow's weeds to swaddling bands.
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A feast of interesting facts,
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This review is from: The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500-1914 (Hardcover)
If you were only allowed one book on fashion, you'd never find a better book than this. It covers fashion from 1500 to 1914 (I wish it went further) but as well as historical detail which is superb, it has analysis and gives 'snapshots' of the day; the author has delved into some sort of treasure box to bring us quotes from letters and periodicals of the day so there's a reality to it too. You really get a sense of what it was like to wear those clothes. There are lots of pictures too, of illustrations and portraits. I have a lot of fashion books but none comes close to this one for original research and authoritative detail.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A masterpiece,
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This review is from: The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500-1914 (Paperback)
This book is just a masterpiece. The amount of research that has gone into it is astounding, but that doesn't make it dull. Ashelford has somehow managed to find letters and articles, sometimes from hundreds of years, ago to bring the past to life and make us realise that we were just as obsessed with clothes then, as we are now. If you are or know a fashion scholar, buy this book. It will be constantly referred to.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Art of Dress (Paperback)
This was given to me as a birthday present and I couldn't put it down. Utterly fascinating. What comes around goes around! Interesting to read about the development of the retail industry as well.
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