Slightly late considering it's Thursday here, but oh well. I'm reading "Le Costume Français", a costume history book about how the french dress up. It feels like I'm revising for class and there aren't enough visual references for my liking, so I hope I'll be done with it fast, honestly. I'll probably jump back into reading fiction for a bit when I'm done with this.
You could post the weekly booknook meme to ensure Europe is on time (Won't somebody think of the Antipodeans?!).... ;-P ::nudges::
I'm not rly into fashion but somebody made me look at Daniele Tamagni's book Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style and the photos are gorgeous (if it's not in a library near you then photosearching online will bring up some splendid images). If you need a brain-break from words about clothes but want to see more clothes (although the very short essays in the book are interesting too). :-)
That would be an idea, but considering I'm not on dreamwidth that often I would rather just be late LOL
Honestly I've learned some amount of costume history for class and have been using it exclusively to make my fantasy designs cooler, I don't know anything about modern fashion. That book sounds interesting and I'll see if I can find it at my local library ! :)
Aw too bad that there's not enough visuals, books about fashion really benefit from those. Costuming can be so interesting, same with fashion history in general, though I feel like I haven't read much of it in a while.
Yeah ! Especially considering it's apparently a reedition of older texts - texts that my costume history teacher has used in class, and those do include visuals ! So it's a... really weird choice, I think. And the little booklet in the middle with one illustration per era mentioned is just not enough considering the amount of things described :/
If you want I can probably dig in what I've read before to recommend you some books about costume history, I'm *almost* sure I have at least one or two with visuals that can be interesting :)
I'm sure you both know this but for anyone else reading: wikipedia has increasing resources on the history of western European fashions which are easy to search by decade in addition to topic.
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Date: 2025-06-19 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-19 09:53 am (UTC)::nudges::
I'm not rly into fashion but somebody made me look at Daniele Tamagni's book Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style and the photos are gorgeous (if it's not in a library near you then photosearching online will bring up some splendid images). If you need a brain-break from words about clothes but want to see more clothes (although the very short essays in the book are interesting too). :-)
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Date: 2025-06-19 03:53 pm (UTC)Honestly I've learned some amount of costume history for class and have been using it exclusively to make my fantasy designs cooler, I don't know anything about modern fashion. That book sounds interesting and I'll see if I can find it at my local library ! :)
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Date: 2025-06-19 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-20 10:16 am (UTC)If you want I can probably dig in what I've read before to recommend you some books about costume history, I'm *almost* sure I have at least one or two with visuals that can be interesting :)
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Date: 2025-06-20 11:20 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_decade
When you find something of interest then it's worth clicking through to wikisource for more related images too. :-)
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Date: 2025-06-21 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-21 06:27 am (UTC)By century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_century
By decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_decade
Click through to 1700-1710 at wikimedia commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1700s_fashion
:-)
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Date: 2025-06-22 07:46 am (UTC)