Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. Black cloth, pictorial DJ. 151 pp. 103 bw and color plates. Full-scale biography of McCardell's achievements as an influential fashion designer. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. Black cloth, pictorial DJ. 151 pp. 103 bw and color plates. Full-scale biography of McCardell's achievements as an influential fashion designer. More
New York, New York: Lerner Heller, 1981. Softcover. Beige stapled wraps with a fan-shaped cutout; Unpaginated, 16 pp.; 10 bw figures. Accompanied exhibitions that appeared at the Lerner Heller gallery in New York and the Reynolds/Minor Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Includes an essay by Virginia Fabbri Butera about the evolution..... More
Softcover. Pink ill. wraps. 71 pp. Numerous bw and color plates. More
Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1972. Softcover. Off-white illus. wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 70 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Accompanied the opening of the installation of the same name at The Brooklyn Museum; Traces the changes in women's dress between the years of 1800 and 1970; Extensive annotations..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1965. Hardcover. Red-orange cloth, white ill. DJ. 428 pp. Approx. 200+ bw ills. More
NY: MMA, 1971. Softcover. Black/color wraps. [50] pp. Appx. 47 bw plates. This issue is devoted to The Costume Institute, which had been recently renovated and expanded in the fall of 1971. More
2000. Softcover. Pictorial stapled wraps. 17 pp. Numerous color plates. Celebration fashion designers' interpretations of the mythical and the real West that define American style. Illustrations accompany descriptive annotations. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: College of Home Economics, Drexel Institute of Technology, 1959. Softcover. Off-white illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 20 pp.; 20 bw photos. Includes gowns and accessories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More
Denver, CO: Denver, CO, 1962. Softcover. Black wraps. 98 pp. Numerous bw plates. More
New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1971. Softcover. Plum stapled wraps with pink decorative motif; 35 pp. with bw images throughout;. Catalogue of 117 works from the exhibition with images of various kinds of face coverings from history and the world over: masks, beards, helmets, etc.; with an introductory essay..... More
Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Black cloth. 458 pp. BW illustrations. Vol. 2 (417 pp., 371 bw plates) contains a list of illustrations, glossary, index, and list of authorities consulted. Includes separate chapters on women's dress, men's apparel, and children's garments, as well as chapters on..... More
1984. Softbound. Illustrated wraps. 106 pp.Numerous bw, some color plates. Exhibition catalogue. Text is by Barbara Schreier. More
Portland, Oregon: Portland Museum, 2008. Softcover. White quad-fold with 11 color illus. Shows color illustrations of 11 Native American beaded bags; with text material by Strankman; from the exhibition on display August 30, 2008-June 30, 2009. Uncommon. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Pale green cloth boards, color-illustrated dust jacket with brown and green lettering. 187 pp. Color illustrations. "Working quietly and without much public attention for more than twenty years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was..... More
York: Historical Society of York County, 1968. Softcover. Off-white ill. stapled wraps. Unpaginated. 19 bw plates. More
2002. Softcover. Patterned wraps. 28 pp. Numerous color plates. More
Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1975. Softcover. Color-illus. stapled wraps with multi-color lettering. 32 pp. with color images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition held September 1975 to January 1976. WIth a foreword by Michael Botwinick and an essay, The Pattern of Male Fashion, by Elizabeth Ann Coleman. All manner..... More
Sturbridge: Old Sturbridge Village, 1966. Softcover. Light orange stapled wraps. 48 pp. Profuse bw ills. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. Softcover. Color-pictorial wraps. 118 pp. Profuse color plates. Examples from designers including Madeleine Vionnet, Alix Gres, Mainbocher, Jacques Griffe, Givenchy, Chanel, Pierre Cardin, Balenciaga, and many others. More
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1980. Softcover. Cream wraps with embossed image of dress; maroon lettering; 71 pp. with numerous color and bw images. A study of Atlanta society and dress from frontier days to the 1950s, with very interesting photographs. More
Boston: Costume Society of America, 1991. Softbound. Off-white matte wraps, 38pp, no illustrations. A brief booklet containing essay abstracts from the Costume Society of Americas' symposium in Boston in 1991. Essays include: The Dynamic Impact of Rubber on American Footwear, The Farmers' Frock of New England: Function and Symbol, and..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: The Pyne Press, 1971. First. Softcover. Purple illus. wraps; 180 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw figures. Part of The American Historical Catalog Collection. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Hardcover. Black library buckram. 358 pp. BW illustrations. Treatise on fashion throughout the ages by Frank Alvah Parsons, president of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, which later became Parsons School of Design. More