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The wedding dress : 300 years of bridal fashions / Edwina Ehrman
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67737
Call no:
391.8 EHR
Author:
Ehrman, Edwina
Publisher:
London: V & A Publishing
Year:
2011
Description:
208 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 32 cm.
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9781851775064
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Book
Abstract:
Draws on wedding garments in the V&A’s renowned collection along with photographs, letters, memoirs, and newspaper accounts to explore the history of the wedding dress and the traditions that have developed around it from 1700 to today.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Silver and White 1700-90 -- ch. 2. The White Wedding Dress 1790-1840 -- A working-class wedding -- ch. 3. Commercializing the White Wedding 1840-1914 -- Too old for white -- ch. 4. Towards the Modern 1914-45 -- To wed in red -- ch. 5. Ready-to-Wear
1945-90 -- A civil wedding -- ch. 6. Choosing White 1990s to the present.
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