Fancy Dresses Described: A Glossary of Victorian Costumes

by Arden Holt

The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to hundreds of glorious costumes. The book was so popular that it was updated several times; this is the sixth and final edition, originally published in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486814254
• ISBN13: 9780486814254
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"