Search Results: Fashion and Beauty from The Owl at the Bridge

Cobb, CA., First Glance Books, 1998. Hard Cover. 192 p. 31 cm. Shaw was the dean of English medievalists and helped promote the Gothic Revival during the Victorian era. Originally published in 1843 as Dresses and Decorations of theMiddle Ages, in this form it is a singular book. This would be useful for costume designers for plays, reinactors, as well as for students of early history, literature and art.Stock# 32,204x. Fine, new/fine. Decorative arts. Art England France Italy Germany

NY & Oxford, Berg, 1992. Hard Cover. viii, 293 p., illus., 22 cm. 16 essays on a variety of subjects: policewomen's dress, material wear, class in Hindu women's dress, Kalabari dress in Nigeria, lacemaking in Venetian culture, Guatemalan textiles… Stock#31825x. Vg/ no dj as issued.

Cologne, Germany : Konemann, c2000.. Soft Cover. 120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Translated from Geschichte der Mode im 20. Jahrhundert. Fashion History in the 20th century became more and more costume that no person of intelligence or taste would consider wearing. Stock# 40,007. Fine/ paper.

London, Collins & Brown, 2000. Hard Cover. 160 p., color illus.; 29 cm. Translated and edited by Peggy Vance from Le Costume Historique, Paris, 1876-1888. Introduction by Mary Alexander. In five sections: antiquity; middle ages; 16th & 17th centuries; 18th & 19th centuries; patterns. Stock#31839. Fine/ dj fine.

Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Image, 2000. Hard Cover. Published in English, French & German in parallel columns. English translation by Ian Monk. The luxury magazine Du Bon Ton published the elegant fashions in clothing depicted by some 25 of France's finest artists-- Georges Barbier (12), Georges Lepape (13) and André-Edouard Marty (12) are the most heavily represented of the 93 plates beautifully reproduced. 27386x. 189 p., 1 leaf; Fine, new/fine.

[Hamburg, 1969]. Soft Cover. [72] p., illus., facsims., 21 cm. Cover title. Handlist of an exhibit of 282 objects on barbering and hairstyles in art that toured in six German and Austrian cities in 1969 & 1970. From the Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH Art collections, Hamburg. Stock#40356. Vg/ paper.

1933, Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, NY. Hard Cover. 317 p., illus., 23.5 cm. Contents include King Minos Charmed by the Embryonic Corset; Damsels in Leaves, Furs, or Feathers; The Dawn of the Voluptuous Orient; The Undies Homer Knew; The Elaboration of Feminine Mystery; Fourteen Layers Encircle the Waist; The Drawers Age in Full Flower; Undies Remake the World; Flaming Youth Becomes Dignity-Conscious; Nudity in Publicity; The Undie Fancier's Annotated Bibliography (299-310); Index. Red cloth covers tamped in black; no dj; VG+. 37212.