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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 13 2006
Every student of 19th-century fashion needs to have six books from Dover Publications in his or her library: - Victorian Fashions and Costumes from 'Harper's Bazar', Stella Blum; - Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from La Mode Illustree, Joanne Olian; - Wedding Fashions 1860-1912, Joanne Olian; - Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey, Alison Gernsheim; - English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, C. Willett Cunnington; - and this book. Carol Grafton's book is really more of an assemblage of pictures for illustrators than anything else, but what pictures! Over 900 B&W drawings lovingly display every little detail of the elaborate costumes of the Victorian and early Edwardian eras from the mid-1850's to 1903. This book doesn't have much in the way of text so it's not as comprehensive a research resource as some of the others that I've mentioned, but as an auxiliary resource to the other books on the above list, it's perfect.
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( 10 of 10 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 5 2005
I would rank this book just behind Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898 (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Stella Blum and Full-Color Victorian Fashions : 1870-1893 by JoAnne Olian. If you have to be selected go with the first two before this one, but I still highly recommend this to round out the collection. More than 900 very detailed crisp drawing from the marvelous people at Dover Publishing again. They bring you inexpensive books that are a wealth of information, writers of period romance just cannot live without.
