Everyday Fashions, 1909-1920, as Pictured in Sears Catalogs

By: JoAnne Olian

Book Overview

Entertaining pictorial record displays elegant dresses for special occasions, everyday wear, and two-piece suits for women; charming hats trimmed with ribbon and feathers, attractive sailor suits for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486286282
• ISBN13: 9780486286280
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

This book (and the others in the series) are absolutely fantastic. As a costumer, i've found these books to be extremely helpful in recreating costumes of the period. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in vintage clothing styles.

Great Resource!

This book is an excellent resource for studying period fashion. Unlike so many period fashion books, which focus on evening wear or the clothing of the wealthy, this book gives great examples of what the general population wore every day. It will be extremely useful to costumers and fashion students.

excellent resource, lovely photos, neat descriptions

This book provides a comprehensive series of illustrations that immerse you in the world of fashion from this era. It is authentic and beautifully laid out, and depicts numerous costume items from the early 20th century, though mostly focusing on women. The pictures depict everything from dresses to shoes, hats to gloves; the women's hairstyles, makeup, undergarments, and overall looks give the reader the most authentic possible view of fashion and the aesthetic ideals of the time. The catalogue also shows the prices and features descriptions that include fabric and color. There are some pictures of men's and children's fashions. This book is thorough and unbelievably beautiful. The whole series of Sears catalogue fashions by decade is amazing. I recommend them all!

The Best Way To Study A Time Period Is Through Examples Of Its Everyday Life

Thru illustrations created for the Sears Catalogs of the early twentieth century, clothing--functional, extravagant, glamorous, practical--is reproduced for visual inspection. Great for research, for curiosity seekers who wish to know what our foremothers wore, or in the case in which I used it, this is a perfect reference book to give to a dressmaker to let her see an example of an outfit you'd like to have made. An great book!

Great Browsing!

I am totally hooked on this series and hope Dover continues it for 1899-1909 and the '50s and '60s, as well. Note in this volume that the brilliant folk at J. Peterman have copied some of the c1913 skirts in their mail order catalog (I now own two, and they're gorgeous). Thank you, Dover, and thank you, J. Peterman!