Empire Fashions Colouring Book (9780486418698)

This coloring book panorama of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French fashions offers a fascinating survey of the changes in clothing style worn during and after the Revolution, and of clothing of the Napoleonic era in general.
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 dress. Footwear, walking sticks, reticules (purses), top hats, turbans, a "poke" bonnet, and dozens of other period accessories are included, along with hairdos for men and women.
A highly informative Introduction and detailed captions complete this new addition to Dover's popular coloring book series on the history of costume.

Product details

• For ages 0-5
• Format Paperback | 48 pages
• Dimensions 216 x 279 x 5mm | 204g
• Publication date 18 Dec 2001
• Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 0486418693
• ISBN13 9780486418698
• Bestsellers rank 108,220

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