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How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor's Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank

How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor's Secrets to...

Author: Andrea Pomerantz Lustig
ISBN: 9781592407231
Format: Hardback
$49.99

""Glamour""'s Beauty Sleuth reveals tricks of the trade to help readers look fabulously high-end--in any economy....  Read More >>

Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World

Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World...

Author: Catherine E. McKinley
ISBN: 9781408822364
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A richly-told, personal quest across the ancient trade routes of West Africa, and the unforgettable story of a rare,...  Read More >>

Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children's Dress in England 1500-1900

Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children's Dress...

Author: Anne Buck, OBE
ISBN: 9780903585293
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Children's clothes reflect the concerns of parents and shifts in fashions. The needs of the child, social attitudes...  Read More >>

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments...

Author: Sarah Thursfield ,  Ruth Bean
ISBN: 9780903585323
Format: Paperback
$90.00

For making period clothes for re-enactment, display and theatre. The reader is shown how to make braies, shirts...  Read More >>

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Author: Robin Netherton (Author) ,  Gale R Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781843837367
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.  Read More >>

Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900

Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900

Author: Linda Setnik
ISBN: 9780764339721
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Updated with nearly 30 high-quality vintage images, the second edition of this lavishly illustrated book provides...  Read More >>

Fashion

Fashion

Author: A Ammonite
ISBN: 9781907708329
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A visual record of the British people's habits of dress from the Victorians to Britpop. It takes us on a journey...  Read More >>

Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China 1644-1911

Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China 1644-1911...

Author: Barry Till
ISBN: 9780888853684
Format: Paperback
$161.25

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Body Style

Body Style

Author: Therèsa M. Winge (Michigan State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781847880239
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of...  Read More >>

Body Style

Body Style

Author: Therèsa M. Winge (Michigan State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781847880017
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of...  Read More >>

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Author: Karen W. Tice (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies and Educational Policy Studies, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780199842780
Format: Hardback
$120.95

Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious...

Author: Alicia Drake ,  Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 9781455157327
Format: Audio
$79.07

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded and the city became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and ambition. At the center...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious...

Author: Alicia Drake ,  Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 9781455157310
Format: Audio
$86.99

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities...  Read More >>

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World...

Author: Catherine E McKinley ,  McKinley
ISBN: 9781608195886
Format: Paperback
$50.13

For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo--a blue pigment obtained from the...  Read More >>

The Printed Square: Vintage Handkerchief Patterns for Fashion and Design

The Printed Square: Vintage Handkerchief Patterns for...

Author: Nicky Albrechtsen
ISBN: 9780062123381
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson, 2012.  Read More >>

Free Stylin': How Hip Hop Changed the Fashion Industry

Free Stylin': How Hip Hop Changed the Fashion Industry...

Author: Elena Romero ,  Daymond John
ISBN: 9780313386466
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This book sources interviews with scholars, urban designers, music experts, financial analysts, retailers, and hip...  Read More >>

City Fashion Berlin

City Fashion Berlin

Author: Christine Bierhals
ISBN: 9783833160622
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"Portrays approx. 70 young top designers Amazing and luxury fashion Accessories Extra feature on Green Fashion...  Read More >>

Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion

Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion

Author: Lizzie Garrett Mettler
ISBN: 9780847838424
Format: Hardback
$85.80

Tomboy Style is a visual tour that chronicles those women who blur the line between masculinity and femininity....  Read More >>

Victorian Fashion Accessories

Victorian Fashion Accessories

Author: Ariel Beaujot
ISBN: 9781847886828
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class,...  Read More >>

Victorian Fashion Accessories

Victorian Fashion Accessories

Author: Ariel Beaujot
ISBN: 9781847886835
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class,...  Read More >>

Dress and Identity

Dress and Identity

Author: Mary Harlow
ISBN: 9781407309422
Format: Paperback
$119.03

IAA Interdisciplinary Series: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art. Volume II. Series Editor: Gillian...  Read More >>

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