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Title: Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes by A. Racinet, Auguste Racinet ISBN: 0-8160-1976-2 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Own
Comment: For any admirer or Racinet's work, this book is a "must own". It is comprehensive, detailed and offers a great deal of information on Racinet's extraordinary lithographs. It is chock full of interesting facts pertaining to history and costume. The book stands on its own but is a wonderful complement for any owner of Racinet's prints. Wonderfully illustrated.
Rating: 2
Summary: A 19th Century view of the history of fashion
Comment: This book is valuable in it's position as a 19th Century-written book on the history of fashion. For this reason, it would be invaluable to anybody researching the attitudes of the 19th Century.
However, for anybody wanting to research fashion it is of use only as a pretty oddity.
It is fun to look through - the coloured plates are beautiful. Some of them are quite detailed and can give a very good idea of the fashion, but it is necessary for you to do more research before accepting this as gospel.
Rating: 3
Summary: Exhaustive and pretty
Comment: High on colorful graphics and low on content, "Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes" has neither a glossary to explain the obscure terms nor any sections explaining the guiding forces of the costumes' evolution. The right-hand pages contain the beautiful, albeit inaccurate plates, while those on the left hand contain the written captions for the illustrations. Sadly, most captions are simplistic and not very informative (how am I to know who a flagellant is and why he must whip himself?). The individual figures and costumes are rarely numbered (although the captions frequently refer to numbers that just aren't there); some of the figures don't have any captions at all, leaving the reader in the dark.
Nevertheless, the sheer variety of illustrations is to be applauded. Most of the world's regions and time periods are exhaustively covered, from Roman armor to the tribal costumes from the New Hebrides to the customary vestments of nuns of the Crusade era (unfortunately, and quite logically, there is no section on modern dress).
However flawed this work is, it does create interest in the subject and can serve as an excellent reference for authors of various forms of fiction.
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Title: What People Wore: 1,800 Illustrations from Ancient Times to the Early Twentieth Century by Douglas Gorsline ISBN: 0486281620 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern : With over 950 Illustrations by Mary Brooks Picken ISBN: 0486402940 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: 20000 Years of Fashion by Francois Boucher ISBN: 0810916932 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Historic Costume in Pictures. (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Braun and Schneider ISBN: 048623150X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete History of Costume & Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day by Bronwyn Cosgrave ISBN: 0816045747 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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