Customer Reviews

Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)

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Some of the historical fashion coloring books are too simplistic for all but the very young colorer. Tierney does a wonderful job blending clean illustrations with eye-catching fashion. My 10 year old daughter and I both enjoy coloring in it.

Enjoy this book if you enjoy the studying the time period. High in detail, its enjoyable if you have the time and patience and care about what Tom Tierney has pulled together for this wonderful book. Really, I do recommend it to those who like and study historical fashion and history. I loved this book for all the above!

This coloring book presents 29 fashion illustrations from 1863 to 1910, including wedding and coronation fashions of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, bathing outfits, women's undergarments, "Aesthetic Look" of Oscar Wilde, six outfits for children and many other.

The pages are thick enough for gentle watercoloring. Coloring Tierney's fashion illustrations is always a pleasure.

I enjoyed this book, but unlike many other Tierney's coloring books with 45 illustrations, this book offers only 29 illustrations for the same price.

However, if you are into this period and love coloring, I guess you wouldn't regret this purchase.

I just purchased these Dover COloring Books for my mother and she loves them. The detail is out of this world and the variety of colors you can use are only limited by your inagination. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

This book is a bit too simplistic for the adult. Probably more for a teenager or maybe an adult who is just starting to color again. I am really interested in fashion coloring and wish there more books out there. I've gone through what is available.

After purchasing a number of adult coloring books, this book finally gave me the coloring experience I was looking for. The drawings are very well done, and they give a wide representation of styles available during the age. Will probably purchase again. The reason I gave four stars instead of five is that if you use markers, it bleeds through the pages, making the other side impossible (or messy) to color. Otherwise, it's an excellent purchase.

The fashions are nice, but most of the pages have blank white backgrounds. Two or three pages include minimal background drawings. I'm disappointed.

I bought this at the time that I bought paper dolls. I don't know if I didn't read thoroughly or if I just got carried away, but I am pleased with my purchase. I don't think it is suitable for young children, but it's wonderful for costume design. I don't know if I would waste it on crayons as well. I think watercolor will be the media I use. It is a beautiful book!

Tom Tierney has an enormous body of work illustrating the fashions of the world and of almost all ages (haven't see Neanderthal fashions yet.) He has these extremely detailed coloring books cum reference works, but he is perhaps more famous for his paper dolls.

If the fashion of this era interests you, he has done a number of paper doll books on the late 19th and early 20th century, including Newport Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, Great Fashion Designs of the Belle Epoque: Paper Dolls in Full Color, Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Gibson Girls Paper Dolls in Full Color, High Victorian Fashions Paper Dolls, Worth Fashion Review Paper Dolls. For the slightly less fashionable population, there are Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls (History of Costume) and American Family of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls.