Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings".
The Cunningtons famous handbooks mapped the development of styles of male and female dress.
Cunnington also published his English Women s Clothing in the Present Century in 1952, while three of his earlier books, written between 19, elucidated his own theories about dress, fashion, and sexuality. Together they published on British dress history from the Middle Ages through the 1950s in their five Handbooks of English Costume, their History of Underclothes, and their Dictionary of English Costume, all published between 19. They amassed a vast collection of English costume between the 1920s and the late 1940s, which they stored in a big shed in the garden of their house in North London. Willett (1878 1961) and Phillis (1887 1974) Cunnington were medical doctors with a general practice in North London in the 1930s they were also major dress historians. Illustrated with dozens of plates, 4 of them in color. DJ is price clipped, has many tears, rubs, bumps, crinkles.
Pencil number written inside front cover, as well as previous owner's name sticker. B & W and Color 6 X 9 xii, 243 pages Hard cover is grey cloth with faded gold lettering on spine some bumping and shelf wear.
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