BYERS, MARGARETTA. (WITH KAMHOLZ, CONSUELO).

Designing Women. The Art, Technique, and Cost of Being Beautiful. (Illustrated by Jane Miller).

London: John Miles, 1939. 1st British edition."Written by two American heads of fashion, Designing Women looks at the British woman with complete honesty, compliments her successes and discovers her weaknesses..For a young girl who wants to avoid years of earning dress experience by bad buying; for the middle-aged woman who would like to know how to pep up her appeal; for the husband who would tactfully inform his wife that if she looked less house-frowsy, he would better enjoy her cooking.." (introduction by Zoe Farmer). Pp.285, frontispece + further black & white illustrations by Jane Miller, coloured title page. Black cloth, silver title to front and spine. VG.

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Book number: 44217

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Byers Kamholz Designing Women Art Technique Being Beautiful Jane Miller Clothes Colour Design Etiquette Manners Costumes Chic Cost 45612 Fashion

CHAILLE, FRANCOIS .

High Jewelry and Precious Objects by Cartier The Odyssey of a Style.

Paris: Flammarion S. A, 2013 . 9782080201737. First edition, in very good dust wrapper. Folio. 33.5cm x 28.7cm x 2.4cm . pp.248 . Illustrated dustwrapper, with. 2cm tear to top edge carefully repaired. Now protected by a removable clear plasic cover. Maroon covers with silver gilt title to front board and spine. Clean English text throughout with excellent illustions. VG/VG .

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Book number: 49617

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: 50873 Flammarion S.A. Paris High Jewelry and Precious Objects by Cartier the Odyssey of a Style. Fashion

HOUSTON, MARY GALWAY (1871- ) / HORNBLOWER, FLORENCE S.

Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian Costumes And Decorations. By Mary G. Houston and Florence S. Hornblower, Containing twenty-five full-page illustrations, sixteen of them in colour, and sixty line diagrams in the text.

London : A. & C. Black, Limited, 4, 5, & 6 Soho Square, 1920 . 0. First edition. In a very good illustrated binding. pp.12/pp.89/[3pp. - Adverts] . Egyptian figure to beige coloured boards, edges lightly rubbed. Spine with black titles. Top & tail carefully strengthened. Previous owner's signature to front-endpaper: "Dana Raes Shearer". Light toning to half title and last leaf (Adverts), otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout. The 16 coloured illustrations are mounted and numbered as plates. A very good copy of this classic costume book. ** "Mary Galway Houston (c.1871 - ): Artist. Mary Houston came from Coleraine, County Londonderry and in 1890 went to study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. In 1894 and 1895 she exhibited lace and crochet at the Royal Dublin Society and black and white drawings at the Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland. The following year she won prizes for leather-work and repousse metal-work. In 1896 she moved to London to study at South Kensington where she became extremely successful. She began to exhibit with the English Arts and Crafts Society, and won a gold medal for a modelled leather book cover. In 1901 she exhibited with the Royal Academy. Her book bindings, including the Rubiayat of Omar Kayam were very popular and she also embossed and modelled leather panels. She was also a fine metal-worker, working in silver, copper and pure tin and in 1900, her toilet set in beaten silver was sent to the Paris exhibition as an example of work from British Art Schools. She often used designs inspired by Irish myth and legend. She was commissioned by the Studio to design two silver trophies. Later in her career she turned to Celtic style designs. Although an international artist, she continued to exhibit at the Royal Dublin Society and at the Irish Decorative Art Association Exhibitions held in Portrush, County Antrim. She joined the staff of Camberwell School of Art and became interested in costume design, and wrote three books on the subject: Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian and Persian Costumes (with Florence Hornblower); Medieval Costume in England and France and Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Costume.".

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Book number: 44286

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: 45706 A. & C. Black, Limited Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian Costumes and Decorations Fashion

LAVER, JAMES.

Style in Costume.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege /Oxford University Press, 1949. 1st edition. "Clothes are not the clothes of the body, but of the mind; indeed the body itself is but a suit of clothing, to be discarded, like an old suit when its need is past. Yes, the Universe itself with Time and Space for its warp and woof, is nothing but a garment which makes the Invisible visible. To this transcendentalism has the Philosophy of Clothes led us as it must lead all who pursue it to the end." (Introduction). Pp.63, 32 sepia plates, toning to endpapers. Grey and pink paper-covered boards, wear to spine, edges and corners. G+.

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Book number: 46153

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: James Laver Style Costume Fashion History Philosophy Assyrian Ziggurat Delphi Ionic Medieval Saracenic Hennin Tudor William and Mary Hats Chimneys Lamp Fireplace Modern Architecture 47718 Fashion

PICK, MICHAEL .

Hardy Amies

Woodbridge, Suffolk: ACC Editions [ Antique Collectors' Club ], 2012 . 9781851496754. Signed First Edition. 12.00" x 9.50" x 1.00" . pp.304 . Illustrated front and rear covers. Cloth spine with title in white. Illustrated endpapers (from a design for the original Christmas Greetings card depicting 14 Savile Row). Dedication to title-page: "To Freddie With all good wishes from The Author. October 2012". Well illustrated throughout, with "..hundreds of original sketches, drawings and photographs from the Hardy Amies archives, many never seen before now, as well as many images that appeared in the fashion press of the day." A very good book. ** Freddy Fox, who with Murray Arbeid, were two of the country's foremost fashionistas. Freddie was milliner to the Queen, designing and making iconic hats for both her majesty, Princess Diana, Hillary Clinton and Joan Collins, as well as hats for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, while Murray Arbeid's dresses adorned the likes of Princess Diana, Princess Alexandra, Queen Noor of Jordan, Estée Lauder and romantic novelist, Danielle Steel. *** Michael Pick, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and formerly an exhibitioner in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, is the author of seven books on design and the decorative arts. A founding committee member of the Twentieth Century Society, a British preservation group, he has contributed to numerous publications, including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Apollo, The Connoisseur, Tatler, Harpers & Queen, and Vogue. Michael has worked with fashion PR Percy Savage and was responsible for the renovation of the famous Mayfair art moderne Norman Hartnell salon. He also wrote BE DAZZLED! The Life of Norman Hartnell, about whom he has lectured at the Victoria & Albert Museum, aboard the Queen Mary, and at the Chichester and Oxford literary festivals. 'Hardy Amies' draws on conversations with Sir Hardy Amies, who asked Michael to write about his life. **** Hardy Amies epitomised understated British couture, emphasising the cut of fine materials by tailored construction. Untrained in dress-making, he achieved headlines in Vogue in 1937 with his 'Panic' suit, a reconstructed design of a staple in every woman's wardrobe, wittily named to reflect current events. Evoking the glamour of pre-war London while meeting the demands of contemporary society's activities - town to country, morning to night - Amies designs drew a star-studded clientele. His war-time 'utility' designs revealed his design philosophy (and partly concealed his role as head of the Belgian Section of SOE), unveiling a needle-sharp intelligence and intuition for the changing world of fashion, his elegant execution of which was rewarded through the influential seal of approval by HM Queen Elizabeth II, as Princess Elizabeth, in 1950. The first post-war international designer to visit the USA, Amies' luxurious style produced lucrative global business opportunities, including ready-to-wear, menswear shown as couture, and wide-ranging merchandising options.

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Book number: 41146

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Signed Acc Editions Antique Collectors Club Hardy Aimes Pick Michael 42704 Fashion

WRIGHT, THOMAS.

The Romance of the Shoe.

London: C.J.Farncombe & Sons Ltd, 1922. 1st edition. Being The History of Shoemaking in all Ages, and Especially in England and Scotland. Chapters include:I.Egypt, Assyria,Greece; II.Rome, Britain, and Saxon and Norman England; III.The Plantagenets, Lancaster and York; IV.The Tudors; V.The Stuarts, Shoemakers' Tokens and Signs; VI.The First Three Georges, The Hardy Trial, Late Tokens; VII.The Old Stitchmen; VIII.Shoemakers' Holidays, Songs, Chap-Books and Proverbs; IX.Machinery. The Footwear Press; X.Anecdotes, Shoemaker Wit and Humour, The Shoe in Fiction and Poetry. Pp.xvi/323/1(ad for another book by the author, black & white frontispiece + 51 further plates, occasional spotting throughout,owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, bumps to corners + minor edge wear. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 44254

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Wright Romance Shoe Egypt Assyria Greece Rome Britain Saxon Norman Englandnorwich Parmenters Cordwainers Patten Makers Buckles Cobbler Levellers Tokens Signs Clogs Boots St Crispin Slippers 45663 Fashion