Amy De La Haye

James Laver

Andrew Tucker

"They don't make paperbacks more attractive and more colorful than this one."—Philadelphia Inquirer

A Concise History

Costume and Fashion

Christina Probert

A Concise History : 322 Illustrations, 58 in Colour

Enriqueta Albizua Huarte

Los caprichos de la moda a lo largo de los siglos son una fuente de interés interminable, no solo como indicación de nuestra capacidad infinita de invención, sino también debido a la relación entre el disfraz y los patrones culturales cambiantes. Laver presenta en este estudio clásico los motivos subyacentes de la moda, así como un estudio de la historia del traje. Describe los medios que han sido adoptados para satisfacer las tres funciones de la ropa: la protección, la expresión de la personalidad a través de la exposición artística y el atractivo para los demás. La invención trascendental de la aguja (hace unos 40.000 años), haciendo posible la costura de pieles, y la posterior introducción del tejido, puso en marcha el desarrollo del traje tal como lo conocemos. Todos los grandes hitos históricos ?el Renacimiento, la Revolución Francesa, la Revolución Industrial, la emancipación de la mujer, las dos guerras mundiales? provocaron cambios profundos en las actitudes hacia el vestir.

Breve historia del traje y la moda

The Age of Illusion: Manners and Morals 1750-1848

Vagaries of fashion through the ages presented for the general reader by a British scholar.

The Concise History of Costume and Fashion

An authoritative account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times to today. From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today, this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history. Costume and Fashion explores the forms and materials used in fashion through the ages, the underlying motives of fashion, and the ways in which clothes have been used to protect, express identity, and attract or influence others. This updated sixth edition features a new foreword and concluding chapter by Amy de la Haye and a new discussion about the major political shifts within the fashion industry, highlighting how it has responded to issues surrounding racism and sexism, LGBTQIA rights, mental health awareness, body and age diversity, and global sustainability. Generously illustrated with paintings, drawings, and photographs, and with a new angle on the emergence of ethical fashion, Costume and Fashion feels more current than ever.

English Costume of the Eighteenth Century

The First Decadent, Being the Strange Life of J. K. Huysmans, by James Laver

Style in Costume

Costume in the Theatre

Women's Dress in the Jazz Age

A Concise History of Costume

"This is the first full-length biography in English of the French writer, Joris-Karl Huysmans. His most famous and certainly his most notorious novel, Là-Bas, published in 1884, became a classic overnight, and his later works, especially Against the Grain, En Route and La Cathédrale, which are concerned with his pilgrimage toward the Catholic Church, are extraordinary in their vivid power. Huysmans' work occupies a unique and important place in French literature of the 'eighties and 'nineties. In his biography, James Laver, author of Whistler, traces Huysmans' strange and unusual life and his progress through the horrifying by-ways of diabolism and the Black Mass to the Catholic Church. He shows Huysmans' relation on the one hand to the Naturalism of Emile Zola and to the Goncourts, and on the other to Barbey d'Aurevilly, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the Symbolists and the Catholic converts. Huysmans' works receive considerable attention in this, his first biography in English. Mr. Laver has delved deeply in the evidence concerning Satanism and the occult to furnish the background for an understanding of Là-Bas. He has gone to great pains to identify the characters and themes of this and other novels."--Dust jacket.

James Laver

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