Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs: 1850 to Today

Quite informative in terms of pointing out style changes and at times, implications for women. I'm very pleased and would recommend to textile history enthusiasts as well as fashion and history readers. Provides good resource when attending shows, sales, and auctions.

Fabulous photos and well-written history. So enjoyed this stunning book and plan to gift it to several people for the holidays. I have several of Ms. Milbank's books...each one surpasses the next as my favorite!

Love this book! A great collection of fashion pics through the years. Great reference book.

Given as a gift and I was told it was very interesting.

This has become my go-to present for women who appreciate style, whimsy, and history. Just yesterday, a hard-to-please recipient sent a thank you text that read, “U got me the perfect birthday gift. Love u tons!” Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs by Caroline Milbank is simply a dazzling book, and you don’t have to be a fashionista to appreciate the hundreds of carefully researched archival photographs and witty, bite-sized descriptions by this big deal fashion historian and curator.Each year since 1850 is told with photos starting with rare images that I have never seen before. Other examples include an 1895 account of the bicycle’s enormous effect on women’s mobility and a magazine noting that “GREAT care should be exercised in the choice of a bicycle suit…must be neat and trim”; a 1910 survey of hats; a LOL 1920s section about the rise of androgyny; see the 1930s sports clothes on page 161; and of course the 1960s described with titles such as “freewheeling” and “bare minimum” followed by the familiar looking shoulder pads of the 1980s, right up to the most current styles.Detailed footnotes are included at the end of the book for the fashion academics, plus a foreword by the esteemed Harold Koda, head of the Met’s Costume Institute. For a photo preview, I found the author on Instagram.

If you purchase one fashion book this holiday season - or indeed this decade - let it be Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs. Milbank captures the essence of each year beginning in 1850, with a collection of images that each has something specific and illuminating to tell us about that particular moment in time. Her fresh observations about the evolution of the silhouette, accessories, innovations in textiles and technology, and what that all means for the changing role of women as expressed in the fashion of the time keep the reader flipping back to the rich trove of footnotes over and over again for more details. In fact, my only suggestion to her editor would have been to incorporate more of that information in the text for each year. As compelling from an anthropological and historical standpoint as it is beautiful, you will understand your mother and grandmother and therefore yourself, better after reading this book. Don’t delay!

Once in a rare while a new book comes along that makes an unusually important and stunning contribution to the study of fashion and social history. And this one will knock your socks off. Beautifully produced and researched, full of fascinating, never-before-seen images, almost 1,500 of them. Amazing in that it contains so many images for every single year from 1850 to the present, really giving the reader an incredible guide to how silhouettes and fashions have changed over the last century and a half.

An AMAZING accomplishment and an invaluable reference book documenting fashion from the onset of photography through 2015. Informative captions, creative design, and thousands of photographs.

High quality paper with great pictures & historical info

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