20,000 Years of Fashion The History of Costume and Personal Adornment by Francois Boucher

20,000 Years of Fashion The History of Costume and Personal Adornment


20,000 Years of Fashion The History of Costume and Personal Adornment by Francois Boucher Writer: Francois Boucher

Size: 89.7 MB

Pages: 456

Language: English

Genre: History

Format Pdf

Price: Free

Publish Date:1959





20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment is a dictionary of western fashion from ancient times up to the 1960s, edited by Francois Boucher and his longtime assistant Yvonne Deslandres. The book is widely cited as a reference for fashion trends in paintings and has 1150 illustrations which are mostly paintings, etchings and engravings from Western museums and collections. The book includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of sources. It was originally published in French in 1965 as Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours and was translated into English the next year, but was published after Boucher's death. In 1987 Deslandres updated a new edition with a section on modern fashion. From Wikipedia