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Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey (Dover Fashion and Costumes),New
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Since the invention of photography there has not been a history of fashion completely illustrated by photographs until this one. Photography historian Alison Gernsheim first studied Victorian and Edwardian fashion in order to be able to date photographs in her collection. Of course the photos soon proved to be the best of all fashion plates authentic, detailed, as decorative and charming as top fashion illustration. When united with identifications and descriptions of the chief costume articles, and a commentary that includes childhood memories of the period, the resulting history is doubly indispensable equally useful and delightful to serious and casual readers.The invention of photography preceded that of the crinoline by about a decade. Precrinoline bonnets, stovepipe hats, and deep dcolletage are featured in the first of these 235 illustrations including a beautiful 1840 daguerreotype portrait of a lady that is the earliest study of its kind extant. From 1855 to the 1870s the crinoline gave shape (whether barrel, bell, teapot, or otherwise) to English women, and their shapes fill many of these full and halfpage photos. English men went beardless in top hats and frock coats; as in other eras, the sporting wear of the previous generation became acceptable morning and evening town attire. Styles and accoutrements came and went moustaches, straw hats, bustles and bodice line, petticoats, corsets, shawls and falsies, flounces, ruffles, lace, and materials satin, silk, velvet, woolen underwear, fulllength sable, and osprey feathers. Many of the models for these fashions were already fashionable enough Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Lillie Langtry, Winston Churchill, many archdukes, duchesses, counts, princes, and Queen Victoria herself. Photographers are identified where possible, and include Nadar, Lewis Carroll, and the Downeys. Every photograph is captioned and annotated.
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