The Complete Costume Dictionary |  | Author: Elizabeth J. Lewandowski
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Category: Book
List Price: $125.00
Buy New: $101.05
as of 5/27/2012 02:30 EDT details
You Save: $23.95 (19%)
New (16) Used (12) from $92.81
Seller: Amazon.com
Sales Rank: 214,205
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 622
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
ISBN: 0810840049
EAN: 9780810840041
ASIN: 0810840049
Publication Date: October 24, 2011
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
While there are costume and fashion dictionaries tied to specific countries or periods, none have been comprehensive. In The Complete Costume Dictionary, Elizabeth Lewandowski has collected from a variety of sources—including costume history texts, journal articles, historical publications, autobiographies, biographies, foreign language dictionaries, and contemporary publications—to create a resource that spans the globe, from the earliest record of fashion to the 21st century.
Including more than 20,000 fashion and costume terms, this volume also features more than 300 illustrations. The first section of the book is an alphabetical listing of these words with their definitions, period, and country of origin. This volume also contains appendixes that list the terms by country of origin, period, and type of clothing. The book is not limited to the Western World and includes both archaic and current terms.
Significantly greater in scope than anything currently available—online or in print—this one-of-a-kind publication is an invaluable resource for costume and fashion historians, textile preservationists, period re-enactors, and history and theatre scholars, as well as theatre professionals.
|
| |
|
|
|
