This book is something else entirely, original drawings, not copies of somebody else's. Authors who wish to draw pretty mannequins in historique dress and their own interpretations of old artworks always get them wrong. (I am on record as saying that author-drawn costume histories are rubbish. Costume in detail: Womens dress, 1730-1930 Bradfield, Nancy Margetts 4. Between the patterns in Arnold's books and the detailed drawings of the finished garments in this book, accurate reproductions can be made. Costume in detail: Women's dress, 1730-1930 Bradfield, Nancy Margetts 4. Because of that, this book is an excellent companion to Janet Arnold's books, in which many of the same dresses have carefully charted dress patterns. Many of the dresses in this book are famous in their own way, in the collections of England. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930 Nancy Bradfield 4.41 179 ratings13 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book This book will be of interest to anyone professionally or educationally involved in costume history as it includes many detailed drawings and studies of dresses and accessories based on research from private collections.

Bradfield has closely, carefully studied them in person and has produced excellent, clear drawings of them, inside and out, showing details of construction and pattern, as well as supplemental material and accessories. These dresses are often too fragile to exhibit, or even photograph clearly, but Ms. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress, 1730-1930 by Nancy Bradfield (1995) Paperback on. title, introductory text, and indexes to designers, directors and productions, some pages with more pochoir and other illustrations, quarter black calf and marbled boards, original card wrappers bound in, the paper is a smooth light weight semi-card, most of the plates have a 25 mm blindstamp in the right hand top corner, no markings.Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930, by Nancy Bradfield, is a unique, detailed, highly useful collection of drawings of historic clothing, almost entirely women's, drawn from specimens in British collections. 52 of an edition limited to 615, 124 heliotype plates printed one side only, most with multiple images, 37 of which fully or partly coloured with pochoir stencils in the studio of J. in fact just about everybody of importance in avant garde theatre in the 1920s. Shop Costume in Detail: Womens Dress 1730-1930 online at best prices at desertcart - the best international shopping platform. Designers include Picasso, Moholy-Nagy, Leger, Rodchenko, Exter, Bel Geddes and directors Meyerhold, Brecht, Reinhardt, Piscator. Illustrations are both photographic and brilliantly coloured in bright pochoir process pigments. Illustrated with hundreds and thousands of pictures of the costumes, set designs and productions of avant guarde theatre in Europe, Russia and the United States. An extremely attractive copy of one of the finest theatre books of the last century. Saude, Picasso, Moholy-Nagy, Leger, Rodchenko, Exter and Bel Geddes among others.

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