Over 900 illustrations documenting what the well-to-do were wearing and buying in years just before World War I.
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful, even in black-and-white!,
By faience (Murrells Inlet, SC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Altman's Spring and Summer Fashions Catalog, 1915 (Altman's Spring & Summer Fashions Catalog) (Paperback)
Altman's catered to a more upscale clientele than Sears or Gimbel's, so this volume makes an important contribution to Dover's wonderful series of fashion catalogs and illustration. The prices of the clothes are relatively high (32.00 for a dress must have been a fortune in 1915!), and the illustrations definitely a cut above many other catalogs. On a few pages, photographed models are used, with some detail drawn in by hand to better show the garment's features. Dover, as usual, reproduces the catalog in black-and-white, but the art quality is still great. The catalog is heavy on women's and children's fashion. "Men's furnishings" (as they are referred to) get only 3 pages. Some other goods, such as household linens, nursery furniture, silverware, 1 page of "bric-a-brac" (lamps, candlesticks, picture frames, a smoking stand), and one of sporting goods (golf, tennis, polo), also appear. For greater variety of goods, you'd also enjoy the "Gimbel's Illustrated 1915 Fashion Catalog" also by Dover.
3.0 out of 5 stars
T O O......S M A L L...!,
By
This review is from: Altman's Spring and Summer Fashions Catalog, 1915 (Altman's Spring & Summer Fashions Catalog) (Paperback)
.
Dear Dover: This book, ALTMAN'S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION CATALOG(UE?), 1915 (ALTMAN'S SPRING & SUMMER FASHIONS CATALOG(UE?) seems an absolute TREASURE-TROVE for those who want to learn fashion illustration, like me. But -- NINE HUNDRED DRAWINGS....IN NINETY-SIX PAGES? These drawings must be soverysmall! I've seen other catalogues of similar date, and know that yes, each page IS filled with teenytinydrawings, and below them, descriptions of items and prices in minisculeprintsize. At least the early "Sears" catalogues were like this. Did B.ALTMAN'S, a higher-rung retailer, have fewer drawings per page? But even five drawings per page makes for hardtocopy drawings! If my suspicions are correct, PLEASE re-issue this book -- in larger format, and in several volumes! Thank you!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
