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Empire Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)

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This coloring book panorama of overdue eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French fashions offers an enchanting survey of the changes in clothing style worn all through and after the Revolution, and of clothing of the Napoleonic era typically.
Forty-five plates of detailed, accurate illustrations include representative of claw-hammer frock, coats and vests for the well-dressed man, loose pantaloons and shorter skirts for the working classes, high-waisted promenade gowns for fashionable ladies, the coronation gown worn by Empress Josephine of France, and other examples of period get dressed. Footwear, walking sticks, reticules (purses), best hats, turbans, a “poke” bonnet, and dozens of alternative period accessories are included, together with hairdos for women and men.
A highly informative Introduction and detailed captions complete this new addition to Dover’s popular coloring book series at the history of costume.
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