Customer Reviews

The Complete Fashion Sourcebook

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This is a great resource for costume designers and anyone else wanting to capture the look of a particular period. The drawings are detailed and include men's and women's styles for each year from the 1920s to the 1980s. Examples include evening wear, daywear, sportswear, and even underwear and wedding fashions. Accessories (hats, shoes, handbags) are also pictured. Plenty can be learned just from looking at the pictures, although the descriptions that follow help to summarize the particulars of line, fabrics, etc. Very easy to use. I LOVE this book and will refer to it often in my work. I wish Peacock would do one for earlier fashions.

Inspirational, detailed, visually pleasing, good for research, and refrence. A must have if you are in the fashion industry

I think this is a good book for anyone to have in their collection especially as a beginning designer whether it be for the stage or in fashion. Everything is in order by decade and easy to find.

My only complaint is that this book, like many of the John Peacock books, does not contain original photos. They are all drawn/painted pictures and I like to have the occasional original photo to follow.

I also recommend his book on shoes and accessories for the same reason!

Overall a wonderful book with year by year fashion changes. All drawings, no photos. Interesting to see the progress from the beginning of a decade through to the end of that decade. Brief descriptions before each decade are interesting. Details on each item shown are helpful. On my wish list would be drawings of the back of some of the pieces. Also on my wish list would be a summary of what features to look for to help identify a garment to a certain time period. This would be of great help when I find a garment that doesn't match the drawings in the book.