Description

An up-shut have a look at the defining options of exquisitely crafted 19th-century type in bright detail

Fashion in Element: 1800–1900 showcases the opulence and number of 19th century type via beautiful colour images of garment main points paired with line drawings appearing your entire building of Every piece. From the sophisticated embroidery on neoclassical robes to the colourful colours of crinolines and the chic tailoring of guys’s coats, the richness of the duration is discovered in breathtaking Element. The featured clothes, drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s international-elegance assortment, had been on the top of favor of their day. They show a outstanding vary of colours, fabrics, and building main points: from the difficult boning of ladies’s corsets to the patterned silk of guys’s waistcoats. Noticed up shut and additional illuminated through unique observation, those moderately selected clothes illustrate most of the prime topics of 19th-century get dressed.

A new creation illuminates the historical past of favor within the 19th century, adopted through chapters that duvet stunning main points, together with gathers, pleats and material, collars, cuffs, wallet, and extra. Every garment is followed through a brief textual content, Element images, and entrance-and-again line drawings. A word list, bibliography, and exhaustive index finish the e book.

160 colour illustrations and 300 line drawings