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 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)