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Vintage fashion : collecting and wearing designer classics / foreword by Zandra Rhodes ; [authors: Emma Baxter-Wright, Sarah Kennedy, Kate Mulvey]

by Baxter-Wright, Emma.

Carlton Books, 2011, c2006.

391.00904 B355v

Fashion -- History -- 20th century.

Costume -- History -- 20th century.

Vintage clothing.

9781844422685 (hc.)

1844422682 (hc.)

223 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliography (p. 223) and index.

Introduction -- 1900-1929 -- 1930s -- 1940s -- 1950s -- 1960s -- 1970s -- 1980s.

An exquisite journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion explores the key designers, silhouettes and shapes, prints and fabrics, and other details and characteristics that define influential vintage garments from the twentieth century. Providing background on the fashion movement of the time, as well as offering an awareness of the sewing skills and techniques of the past, the book enables the reader to distinguish original and rare vintage clothing from ready-to-wear and later reproductions.

Rhodes, Zandra, 1940-

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