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Wedding Fashions, 1862--1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" [Paperback]

JoAnne Olian (Editor)
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Five decades of exquisite confections of satin, taffeta, and lace for the bride, superb ruffled creations for sisters of the bride and scores of lovely pleated and lace-trimmed outfits for bridal attendants — all accompanied by exhaustively detailed descriptive captions. An essential reference for clothing, costume and textile designers and historians.

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent victorian costume source, July 6 2000
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This review is from: Wedding Fashions, 1862--1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" (Paperback)
delightful book with lots of pictures of victorian style wedding attire. useful for "dedicated to detail costumers' and for modern brides who want the victorian look for their weddings as well. plenty of detail pictures of shoes, corsets undergarments,headdresses etc. i would definitely recommend this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent victorian costume source, July 6 2000
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This review is from: Wedding Fashions, 1862--1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" (Paperback)
delightful book with lots of pictures of victorian style wedding attire. useful for "dedicated to detail costumers' and for modern brides who want the victorian look for their weddings as well. plenty of detail pictures of shoes, corsets undergarments,headdresses etc. i would definitely recommend this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What the well dressed Victorian bride was wearing, Mar 8 2003
By Lawrance M. Bernabo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wedding Fashions, 1862--1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" (Paperback)
Dover has a whole series of books devoted to reproductions of vintage fashions. "Wedding Fashions, 1860-1912: 380 Costume Designs from 'La Mode Illustree'" has not only reproductions of illustrations but also detailed descriptive captions. These are not just bridal gowns done in satin, taffeta, and lace, but also creations for bridal attendants, sisters of the bride, and so forth (the idea that the sister of the bride has to have a special dress was an interesting insight into Victorian society). These authentic Victorian fashions will be of interest to costume designers, cultural historians, and fashion enthusiasts. Companion volumes provide full-color fashion plates, contemporary photographs, and authentic fashion patterns.

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5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate book on a specialized Victorian topic - the bride!, Aug 13 2006
By Joseph A. Admire - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wedding Fashions, 1862--1912: 380 Costume Designs from "La Mode Illustree" (Paperback)
The Victorians paid a lot of especial attention to wedding costumery, as Joanne Olian shows in her slim volume displaying the evolution of bridal and bridal-party fashion from 1860 to 1912 as seen in the fashion plates of the famous magazine "La Mode Illustree". The illustrations, all in B&W, are full-page and always accompanied by at least one paragraph of descriptive text taken from the original source material. This book should be owned in conjunction with Olian's other volume, "Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from La Mode Illustree", for a really comprehensive look at the topic of Victorian fashion. Also, anyone who is considering organizing a Victorian-themed wedding will definitely want to peruse this book for ideas!
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