Author: Marie Schild
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Male character costumes
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Category : Amateur theater
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Benjamin Linley Wild
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350015016
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and political messages. The only form of clothing that all people, regardless of gender, race, class or sexuality are likely to wear at some point in their lives, fancy dress is a symbol of both escapism and protest; it stands for a vision of fantasy and fun, while also confronting the reality of cultural stereotypes. Exploring all the allure, playfulness and daring of dressing up, Carnival to Catwalk takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the global history of fancy dress. Drawing on a treasure-trove of textual and visual resources, the book encompasses Halloween festivities and transvestite clubs, Mardi Gras parades and gatherings at Versailles, revealing how fancy dress has long been used to celebrate as well as to disguise individual identity. Vividly chronicling evidence from the Middle Ages to the modern day, cultural historian Benjamin Wild throws open the historical dressing-up box and demonstrates the enduring appeal of fancy dress, as it becomes an increasingly central part of modern couture and clothing design. Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated, Carnival to Catwalk is a remarkable resource for scholars, students and costume enthusiasts alike.

Author: Kate Strasdin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639364226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman's textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments - some her own, others donated by family and friends - she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator. Using her expertise, Strasdin spent the next six years unraveling the secrets contained within the album's pages, and the lives of the people within. Her findings are remarkable. Piece by piece, she charts Anne's journey from the mills of Lancashire to the port of Singapore before tracing her return to England in later years. Fragments of cloth become windows into Victorian life: pirates in Borneo, the complicated etiquette of mourning, poisonous dyes, the British Empire in full swing, rioting over working conditions, and the terrible human cost of Britain's cotton industry. This is life writing that celebrates ordinary people: not the grandees of traditional written histories, but the hidden figures, the participants in everyday life. Through the evidence of waistcoats, ball gowns, and mourning outfits, Strasdin lays bare the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes we choose to wear.

Author: Richard Fotheringham
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234880
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.

Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Ardern Holt
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Languages : en
Pages : 790

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