Author(s): Emma Baxter Wright

General Art and Design

An exquisite journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion explores the key designers, silhouettes and shapes, prints and fabrics and other details and characteristics that define influential vintage garments from the 20th century.
Providing background on the fashion movement of the time, the book enables the reader to distinguish original and rare vintage clothing from later reproductions.

Whether it is a 1950s Christian Dior dress or a 1970s Emilio Pucci shirt, period pieces by famous designers are greatly sought after, and early-century pieces are particularly beautiful and hand-crafted. From Edwardian lace dresses to a Vivienne Westwood mini-crini, vintage items are shown in the context of the time in which they were made and worn, in order to chart the influence fashion had on women's lives. For those interested in collecting and wearing vintage, as well as for anyone who wants to learn more about fasion history.