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Fashion Representation Diversity
Customers are generally positive about "Fashion, New Edition: The Definitive Visual Guide" for its comprehensive representation of fashion history with a focus on diverse styles from various cultures and time periods. Some customers have expressed disappointment regarding the lack of extensive coverage on recent decades and the limited representation of ordinary people's fashion throughout history.
Book Quality And Appearance
Customers have generally positive opinions about the book's quality and appearance with many praising its large size, glossy pages filled with numerous illustrations and historical information on fashion from various cultures and time periods. However, a few customers expressed disappointment due to issues with damaged or unsatisfactory conditions of their copies.
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Quality
I love the many pictures of real clothes, paintings, and sculptures of costumes throughout history.
This is a large heavy beautiful textbook.
The recent decades remind me of a quote: <b>“fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The pictures are of extant garments, portraits, fashion plates, photographs etc--basically period images.
Price
Incredible price for how much book you get.
If you want to learn about fashion history, you will get much value from this book!
I should have had it mailed to her as i live in florida and she is in arizona and it's gonna cost me a fortune to send it but n... Read More
Shipping
Very fast delivery and super well packed.
Packaging/appearance
It is so packed with gorgeous photos and illustrations and information.
It's packed with so much fashion information and detail.
Was just annoyed that a clearly used copy was sent.
Several pages were folded, the cover was damaged, there were dirt marks on the cover, and the book smelled like cigarettes!
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 1,172 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 18 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Book is very heavy and filled with alot of information about fashion
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You will not regret your purchase
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For a guy not very interested in fashion this was a bit of a slog
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Still i wanted to see the evolution of fashion
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During the world wars especially wwii the clothing pictured in the book was simple used less material and was more utilitarian
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In recent decades some fashion was bare and bizarre designed to titillate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Others are just gross and ugly
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Almost none of it would be worn by people living ordinary lives
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