Detailed, accurate renderings of 2 dolls, 28 costumes — Queen Victoria's wedding gown, evening dress by Worth, Dolly Varden walking suit, more.
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Victorian Fashions,
This review is from: Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color (Dover Victorian Paper Dolls) (Paperback)
The greater part of the nineteenth century women's fashion is covered by this book. One sees the charming bell skirts mutating into bustles and finally the hourglass figure. The colors are brilliant and the dolls are based on Queen Victoria and Empress Eugenie (although, for some unexplained reason, the latter doll has blonde hair even though Eugenie had dark hair).
I especially liked Tom Tierney's selection of a great variety of costumes, including sportswear, daywear, evening wear and ballgowns. The one flaw with the book is that there is a sudden gap from 1888 to 1900. I think there was no need to feature 6 costumes from 1900 alone, while the entire 1890s were unrepresented.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Glorious Excess,
By Jackie_NJ (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color (Dover Victorian Paper Dolls) (Paperback)
Tom Tierney's illustrations cover a 60 year time span when what we would consider "too much", was never enough when it came to embellishing the clothing of a fashionable woman. As eye candy, this is excellent. As a reference, this book is very helpful in establishing the lines and silhouettes of the various decades. As always, the colors are brilliant and the styles are faithfully rendered.
The source of most of these illustrations are famous portraits, magazines of the day, and later photographs of fashionable women. Charles Frederick Worth started the practice of showing clothing on real people, as opposed to miniature costumes worn by fashion dolls, and his work is generously represented, along with a number of other designers, all of whom might have been overlooked by a lesser researcher than Mr. Tierney. Since there are a multitude of refernces including printed and photographic material that cover the 1890s, I can understand why those fashions would merit an entire book of their own, so I am not troubled by the absence of the decade of the 1890s. This book serves to provide an excellent overview of how womens' clothing evolved during the Victorian Era all the way up until 1900.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color (Dover Victorian Paper Dolls) (Paperback)
I love a lot of these books and when I add another one its such a treat..Once again..fine quality.good paper quality,fine coloring.I use them in paperdoll/altered art ,and decoupage.they are perfect for my needs..B.W.
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