Fantastic Fashion by Barbara Cox

Fantastic Fashion by Barbara Cox

Fantastic Fashion takes a look at some of the most bizarrely beautiful and outlandish trends in clothing and ornament, from the medieval steeple headdress and the eighteenth-century dandies of the Macaroni Club, to the dangeroulsly tight corsets of the 19th century and the futuristic space-age look of the 1960s. From the preposterously high wigs worn by persons of prominence in the eighteenth century to the glitterly platform boots of the 1970s, the history of fashion is filled with weird and wonderful trends - some flashes in the pan, others enduring and evolving over hundreds of years. At the time these styles were heralded as delightful innovations but, with the benefits of hindsight, many of these fads and fashions can now be seen as the absurd, uncomfortable and sometimes downright dangerous foolishness that they were. Fantastic Fashion is a celebration of all that is fantastically bizarre in our sartorial past.

Barbara Cox has extensive eperience as a professional scriptwriter and editor and has worked on numberous TV drama programmes, including The Bill and Wycliffe. Carolyn Sally Jones has been a full-time writer for television, radio and theatre for 20 years. Caroline Stafford worked in the fashion industry for Mushroom, French Connection and as fabric buyer for Nicole Farhi.

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ISBN 13	9781845434915
ISBN 10	1845434919
Title	Fantastic Fashion
Author	Barbara Cox
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2012-11-01
Number of pages	256
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