The History Of Costume

The "History of Costume" or "Zur Geschichte der Kostüme" was printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the publishing close of Braun and Schneider. It was originally appear as alone plates in a German annual blue-blooded "Münchener Bilderbogen". Later, these plates were calm and apprenticed into book form.
The absolute advertisement consisted of 125 pages, with four pictures per pages, for a absolute of 500 apparel designs. These plates consisted of actual dress from antique to the end of the 19th century. This book is an accomplished antecedent for acceptance who are belief the history of appearance and for apparel designers. One accept to be acquainted though, that these illustrations accept a Victorian angle to their designs. The endure 35 pages consists of abreast folk dress (c.1880) from a lot of European, Asian, and African countries. These provides a antecedent for researching plays which yield abode during the Victorian period, such as "The King and I" or "The Sea Gull". The aboriginal book was appear in German, so at times, the English adaptation is confusing. This is abnormally apparent in the abreast folk dress plates area abounding of the countries mentioned now accept altered names or no best exist.