Title: Dover's best Victorian clothing archive
Review: This is a very useful archive of original Victorian engravings of women's fashions from 1867 to 1898 Harper's Bazar magazines. They are, of course, in black and white, but original, detailed descriptions are included. This is one of the heftiest of Dover's collections of historic fashion plates, and an excellent bargain.Harper's Bazar was an American magazine. These fashions would have been copied from and based on European fashions, particularly French ones, for the style-conscious and aspirational American ladies.These engravings are useful for costume designers, just so long as you remember these are idealized Victorian images with fantastically narrow waists quite unrelated to how women really looked, then or now.With that in mind, this is a good resource for visual artists, authors, and designers dealing with the Old West, Victorian England and Gilded Age America, and steampunk.It is also an excellent source of images for collage artists.
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