Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries

摘要: This volume offers the opportunity to see fragile clothes in detail. Perfection is detail: decorative seams, exquisite stitching, knife sharp pleats and voluptuous drapery feature alongside more usual techniques such as stamping, pinking slashing. Many of skills displayed have been lost modern world: labour-intensive handwork no longer done these effects cannot be replicated by machine. Yet many fashion designers take their inspiration from past, adapting ideas a contemporary idiom. Containing gallery photographs, accompanied line drawings showing construction complete garment, this book should appeal anyone interested historical costume textile history, cut fabrics trimmings.