This is a second-hand hardcover book.

Condition: The dust jacket is fitted with an archival wrap; the wrap has light surface scuffing. There is an old price sticker on the dust jacket. The rest of the book has no faults. The pages are clean and bright.

The dimensions: 240 x 310 mm Pages: 224 Publisher: V&A Publications Publication date: 2002 first edition

Dress in Detail: From Around the World By Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden & Verity Wilson

Dress in all its global diversity is the theme of this beautifully illustrated book. It brings together some 150 garments from East and West, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle, from the plains of India to the mountain ranges of Montenegro. Many of the garments illustrated here were made for festivals, weddings and other ceremonies, and they display a breath-taking richness of detail - rows of ornamental buttons, embroidered borders, intricate pleating and stitching, flamboyant fringes and tassels - that makes them a source of inspiration for many of today's top designers.

Using specially commissioned photographs and line drawings that demonstrate the underlying structure of each garment, the book is arranged on thematic lines, drawing together examples of each type of detail and decoration from disparate cultures. Details of fastenings, necklines, cuffs, hemlines and fringes, seen in close up here for the first time, contribute to a wide-ranging survey which is both a visual feast of textures, patterns and craftsmanship, and a serious contribution to the interpretation of dress. The text is packed with information about the garments, the ways they were worn, and how they were made.

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