Collector’s Guide to Vintage Fashions Identification and Values

  • Author(s): Kristina Harris
  • Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
  • Publisher: Collector Books
  • Publish year: 1999
  • ISBN: 9781574320961
  • Number of Pages: 188

Mter decades of hovering between the worlds of fine art and folk art, clothing has only recently been accorded its place as a vital docmnent of social history. It has long been acknowledged that fancy and costly clothing of the past was to be treasured because of its beauty, but only in the last quarter century have musemns and collectors treated even the simplest garments with their due respect.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Contents

Aknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Word about values

Part One - The Fashions

Part Two - The Collecting

Appendix

Afterword

About the author

Bibliography

Index