Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (World of Art)

Love it, bought this for my fashion class. Really interesting book.

This was a brilliant purchase.I've always found it hard to find books that had such a vast amount of info on historic costumes.The illustration content was perfect and I found that there was enough written content too.An excellent buy.

Love this Book! Highly recommend for the Costume Designer for their Library! Good reference book! Ideas Galore! No Designer can have enough sources

It was a required reading for my History of Dress class and I am glad I have read all of it. It's a very easy read and also very compact. It is full of knowledge about fashion and clothing. It is a good survey of fashion.

Great information about this Book and Explanation historical.many Picture of style in the early century. I Love it this world of art.

Using only primary resources (paintings, statues, etc. from the periods being shown), this book is both concise and trustworthy. Unlike other books that try to cover an expansive period of time in Western costume, this one never uses original or after the fact illustrations, which can be misleading and/or inaccurate. The only downside is that there are only a few samples from each period, so the reader doesn't get as broad a sense of the time as one might hope. Still, if the idea is to get a broad understanding, the text with the pictures combine to make a decent starting point for Western fashion from Ancient times to the 1990's.

Ok condition.

This book is aptly titled. It gives just a little bit about everything from ancient Egyptian styles to fashion in the 1990s. Those of you looking for photos and descriptions with great attention to detail should look elsewhere, but those of you looking for just an overview of fashion, this would be a good introduction.The author discusses the rise and fall of fashion trends through the ages, and how society, industry, and particular people influenced them. The text in this book seems as informative, as it is concise. However, other reviewers seem to think that the author's information about pre-20th century costumes is inconsistent with other sources, but the post-20th century information is consistent with what I have learned from other sources.Therefore, I recommend this book with some hesitation. If you want a good overview of fashion history, especially a pictoral history, I would recommend this book. On the other hand, if you are looking to learn more about a particular era, especially ancient costumes, I would recommend choosing a book specifically written about that era.

A "must have" book for every fashion designer,

In good condition.

Excellent! Well done to Mr Laver! If there is an art to passing on knowledge then he must have it by the bucket load!I bought this book, along with several others, for research use in writing lectures for Fashion History, and I've probably used it more than all of the others put together. The book takes you along at a decent pace (not like wading through treacle and not missing out the smaller interesting facts that make the history come alive!) which means it just as easy to read cover to cover, as it is to dip in and out of for specific references. I shall be recommending it, for good background reading, to all my students.

Content is informative

Good item. Highly recommend seller. A+. Delighted!