A suggestion from long-time Luscious Lifer, The Ancestral Poetess: She’s loving The Hundred Dresses: The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time by Erin McKeen, with illustrations by Donna Mehalko…
Many thanks for the tip! It’s perfect timing as I’m putting together a post about dresses with a glossary about the many different styles and when to wear each one. Watch this space.
Here are some other books about lovely frocks in history which might interest you:
- 100 Dresses: The Costume Institute – The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harold Koda
- Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by the Design Museum
- The Art of Dress: Clothes Through History 1500-1914 by Jane Ashelford
- Power and Style: A World History of Politics and Dress by Dominique Gaulme and Francois Gaulme
- The Worldwide History of Dress by Patricia Rieff Anawalt
- Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress by Phyllis G. Tortora and Keith Eubank
- Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style by DK Publishing
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Cheers, Natasha
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