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Looking at Fashion: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
What is an epaulette? What is a hanbok? These clothing items—and hundreds more—are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide.
Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the times and the motives of the moment, charting shifts in society, status, technology, and economy. Fashion is shaped by both high and popular culture and reveals the influence of individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Spanning the centuries and representing a global point of view, Looking at Fashion is a guide to the elements that make clothing practical, wearable, stylish, and distinctive. Created for scholars, students, fashionistas, and anyone who wants to expand their understanding of world culture through the history of dress, this book provides a rich and varied lexicon of the vocabulary that describes and explains the most essential components of garments and techniques of clothing construction. Ranging from basic pieces and their individual parts to structure, embellishments, and innovations, Looking at Fashion offers insights into the evolution of dress in terms of style, fit, and design. Gorgeous color illustrations, including paintings, photographs, historical garments, and custom drawings, reveal the interrelationship of fashion and art from antiquity to now.
Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the times and the motives of the moment, charting shifts in society, status, technology, and economy. Fashion is shaped by both high and popular culture and reveals the influence of individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Spanning the centuries and representing a global point of view, Looking at Fashion is a guide to the elements that make clothing practical, wearable, stylish, and distinctive. Created for scholars, students, fashionistas, and anyone who wants to expand their understanding of world culture through the history of dress, this book provides a rich and varied lexicon of the vocabulary that describes and explains the most essential components of garments and techniques of clothing construction. Ranging from basic pieces and their individual parts to structure, embellishments, and innovations, Looking at Fashion offers insights into the evolution of dress in terms of style, fit, and design. Gorgeous color illustrations, including paintings, photographs, historical garments, and custom drawings, reveal the interrelationship of fashion and art from antiquity to now.
- GenresFashionNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2024
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July 27, 2024
An outstanding guide to the elements that make up fashion, with stunning illustrations, examples from art, photographs, and more. This is a must-read for anyone interested in fashion. I loved it!
January 19, 2025
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Overall Rating: 3 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A guide to everything that is fashion and the evolution of it all, explaining the elements, history, terminology, and everything else. This book also had some excellent illustrations and pictures. If you have a passion for fashion I suggest you read this book.
Thank you NetGalley, and publishers for an advanced readers copy of this book.
Overall Rating: 3 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A guide to everything that is fashion and the evolution of it all, explaining the elements, history, terminology, and everything else. This book also had some excellent illustrations and pictures. If you have a passion for fashion I suggest you read this book.
Thank you NetGalley, and publishers for an advanced readers copy of this book.
November 14, 2024
This was so interesting. Definitively a guide or dictionary for fashion terminology. I really liked it, only wish there had been more illustrations!
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