Fashion in Paris - From the revolution to the end of the XIXe century - 24 plates in colors (Broché)

The various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from the revolution to the end of the XIXe Century. From the french by lady Mary Loyd - London - 1901. with 24 coloured plates and 250 text illustrations by François Courboin. Books on Fashion will be sought and welcomed, to all time and in every sphere, with special favour, because they are both recreative and instructive, and because everybody believes him or herself capable of enjoying, of understanding, and of interpreting them.
They rouse general curiosity. To women they supply the history of their banner, of their guild, of their own versatility, Men, gazing on their pages, seek to call up the memory of dead charms, and their sad thoughts stray to those far distant joys which have faded out for ever. The children open their great wondering eyes on the gay shadows still touched with life's own colours ; and the old return to youth, and feel their dead passions stir again, as they gaze on the sunny mirage of the past, which starts into light under the magic-lantern of these coloured plates.
If we consider France alone - the country which, for so many years, created fashion, and imposed the eternal laws of costume on neighbouring nations - we may fairly say that the art of dress has never been more interesting than since it became democratised, and thus grew general. The nineteenth century has already passed into the domain of history. I have thought it would be interesting to bring the panorama of feminine costume during these hundred years into the compass of a single volume ; the changes of fashion during this interval have been greater and more varied than could be imagined.
Octave UZANNE This book has been translated and published in London in 1901, three years after the French version, and contains 24 hand colourized plates. The colorized plates are printed in colours on this new reprint ! Text in english.