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Fabulous Frocks | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sarah Gristwood, Jane Eastoe
Publisher: Pavilion
Category: Book
List Price: £25.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 16045
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 9.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1862057982
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.209
EAN: 9781862057982
ASIN: 1862057982
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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 Superb January 3, 2009
Flo (UK)
This book is one of those classic coffee tables books that will last for years. Filled with beautiful images of dresses in the last 100 years, this book is a real celebration of style and the writing is pretty good too.
 Fabulous Frocks - A Review November 24, 2008
N. D. Meikle (Durham, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Fabulous Frocks considers two time frame periods - 1908 to 1958 and 1959 to 2008. The book has a selection of mainly photographic images of varying quality and one or two fashion illustrations of yesteryear that are good examples of the visual idiom. However, if looking at this time span of years in terms of women's fashionable representation is of interest to you - do not let the prospect of a relative few `iffy' images put you off - this book has many images that makes it more than worthwhile.
If you have thumbed-through a number of women's fashion books that focus on image - then many of the photos in this book you will have seen before - yet again, the book is made worthwhile by a selection of images you may not have seen before.
If the title of the book is something of a turn-off, by giving the impression that the book is all glitzy, girly post-Hollywood or later-day glamour, then you would be wrong. Yes there is that element of visual-media fame glamour to the book - but there is also a range of other femininities featured in the book. While several of which would not `sit-easy' with many of those from a particular feminist perspective - such as the immediate post-World War Two period. Yet as oft said, clothes that women choose for themselves are about the individual representing their own sense of femininity or womanhood - and this book features many outfits across the ages that a large proportion of women, even today, would be delighted in wearing.
An obviously well-researched book - both in terms of the many delightful images it features - and the manner in which it is written. From a fashion photography perspective, for those other than enthusiasts out to find particularly rarely published images - this book will delight the majority with offerings from the likes of John French featured on the front cover and Horst P. Horst. Not that purely pre-nineteen sixties images are the only worthy ones in the book - there are a number of more later-day powerful images in the book. Again, if you have seen similar books to this before - there are a range of `classic' and more contemporary images that you will have seen before.
There are many others that you are either unlikely to have seen featured elsewhere before - or have not seen for some time. Photographic fashion images, like a variant of an often published 1926 Chanel outfit worn by Marion Moorhouse, a 1958 Yves Saint Laurent for Dior `trapeze line' outfit, a 1950s Henry Clarke image of a Givenchy sheath dress, a 1930 horst, a 1950s John Prigent and another Horst P. Horst offering, this time featuring an unusually early shot of Jane Fonda - are all certainly worth highlighting. As are many other later day offerings.
Celebrity `glamour' also features: Diana Dors, Rachel Weisz, Dianna Princess of Wales, Jacqueline Kennedy, Claudia Schiffer, Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Liz Hurley, and Jerry Hall, for example, are featured. As do later day mannequins Kate Moss, Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. From a personal point of view, a highlight of the book includes a 1943, simple - an `everyday' British park lake scene, effective - shows the clothing of three women, provides a delightful inclusion. In all, a very worthy addition to those collecting books on visual representation of women's fashion - and to those who just want to see examples of women's clothing from the early twentieth-century onwards.
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