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Buttons And Trimmings (Fashion & Style)
by Althea MacKenzie (Photographer: Richard Blakey)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: National Trust (2005-01)
ISBN: 070780387X
EAN: 9780707803876
Dewy Decimal #: 708
Hardcover: 94 pages
Condition: New
Comments: 2004, 7.5 x 7.5 inches in size, 96 pages, Hardback, Book is in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) Fast Service. Books well packed.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting, but not fascinating, little book
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-04-16
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this and "Embroideries" of the same series on super-sale at the Met and I have to say that I would not pay full price for them. They are lovely, but they are small (note the dimensions before you buy) and are not very information-dense and I have seen some of the items featured on a larger, more approachable scale in other books. I recommend looking at the "Fashion in Detail" books published by the V & A before you purchase these. Still, the Snowshill collection is one of the best in the world, and these books offer the only published examinination specifically of this collection(ideally, the manor would publish a full-scale book on its collected pieces). There are unique, interesting pieces and work featured here (some bonnets in amazing condition, and a reticule trimed with cut fish scales!) and scathing as I can be of them, I will probably end up buying the others in the series.
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a small gem
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-02-23
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
this is a charming and inspriring book for anyone interested in historic costume or buttons and trims.
the detailed photos are, in fact, detailed. technique can be examined as well as design.
the examples come from the collection of a late victorian eccentric and include british and non-british examples from various social classes.
a fine addition to a costume or textile library.
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