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Click to enlargeCostume Through the Ages: Over 1400 Illustrations

Erhard Klepper
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486407225
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
Few books of costume design are more useful than this volume. Detailed drawings in a continuous chronological format provide a history of costume design from the first century AD to 1930. More than 1,400 illustrations chronicle the full sweep of two millennia of Western garb, from Roman noble to Victorian dandy, from Elizabethan lady to Jazz Age schoolboy.

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