New books!
I just spotted these new clothing-related books on Amazon, and thought you might like to read about them, too:
Fashioning Fashion is coming out -- well, today (September 1), by the time a lot of you see this message -- 100 Dresses comes out on October 26, and Underwear comes out on November 1.
British Textiles: 1700 to the Present (also from the V&A) is scheduled for next March.
There's also High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which came out in June, and includes "historical costumes from the 1760s to the 1890s" among the 200+ examples drawn from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection.
- Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
- Underwear: Fashion in Detail (Victoria & Albert Museum)
- 100 Dresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art / Costume Institute)
Fashioning Fashion is coming out -- well, today (September 1), by the time a lot of you see this message -- 100 Dresses comes out on October 26, and Underwear comes out on November 1.
British Textiles: 1700 to the Present (also from the V&A) is scheduled for next March.
There's also High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which came out in June, and includes "historical costumes from the 1760s to the 1890s" among the 200+ examples drawn from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection.