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| Fashion Line Magazine |
Today, there's growing audience for these golden oldies. Fashion line magazine's "Golden Rules" of assessing vintage clothing: Is it a good design? Is it made from a quality fabric? Is it beautifully made? Is it a good example of a particular era? To help a new collector know the various decades of the 20th Century, she goes from the wartime years of the 40's to the 90's grunge. In each era, it shows and tells what was happening and what was being worn from Christian Dior's New Look in the 40's to Pucci prints in the 60's .
Fashion Line Magazine, with its colored photos and sketches a fascinating read. There are little nuggets such as the key motif's for 50's which appeared on handbags, scarves, fabrics and jewelry. These ranged from French poodles to Hawaiian scenes and playing cards. In the back of the magazine there is a hard-to-find source guide of over 600 shops worldwide carrying quality vintage clothes. It is simple and elegantly written with beautiful black and white illustrations. Even if one is not a fan of fashion guides , you will be intrigued by notorious life & fashion style as told here. Either for yourself or a friend, a nice book to keep and look through now and again.
The three best chapters for vintage information, Although the title suggests turn-of-the-century, the author starts with the war years of the 40's. There's so much good information in this charming magazine
.Fashion Line Magazine, shows how the story of women's lingerie runs parallel to the story of the times. The author traces women lingerie from the laced, corseted, turn-of-the-century courtesans to the 1920's flapper with her boyish flatter figure and then the sexy lingerie of the Pin-Up girls of the 40's .
Fashion Line Magazine is rich with alluring photos of celebrities, such as Madonna, Christy Turlington, Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, and Victoria Secret's cover girl Laetitia Casta. There's also a back-of-the-magazine timeline that starts in 1850 and goes to 1999. It covers every decade, tracing the trends in lingerie and fashion, plus cultural events of the
time. You'll also find a lavish pictorial history of women's lingerie. Throughout this 200-page book is society's changing attitude toward women's bodies and how women view their own physical persona.
The fashion line magazine is well-known for its extensive collection of Western costume. One of the Institute's rather unique features lies in its presentation of those costumes. Rather than laying the clothes out flat, they are displayed on manikins in the manner in which they would have been worn--including shoes, hats, gloves, purses, fans, etc. It serves as a complement to mainstream magazines by providing content not typically covered by other publications because of its lack of commercial value. This magazine serves as not only a tribute to a personal grace, beauty, and stylishness beyond compare, but manages to also capture fashion history . This magazine is the epitome of grace, beauty, style, warmth, and substance.
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