Kristina HarrisVintage Fashions for Women: 1920s-1940s

Kristina Harris has given us a treasure in this masterful book featuring brilliantly photographed dresses, suits, and gowns from the 1920s to early 1950s. With vintage ads, general fashion history by the decade, and loads of stunning vintage garments on delightful young models, this book is arguably one of the best fashion publications of the twentieth century. No costumer should be without it!

The photos are older but they really gives one a real look into how real people appeared in actual vintage clothing.

Very nice item, even better than pictured.

Good resource material for costume design.

I use these books to get ideas and to make patterns, so the ones that have a lot of different designs and show them well are very prized. You think f the 20's (mostly) as the straight flapper dress, but there were others in all kinds of shapes.You can sure tell where the Star Wars contumes came from!

I enjoyed the text of this book. The pictures are limited to primarily donated costumes owned by an Oregon Community Theater. The collection is almost exclusively evening wear and suits. No every day clothes and very few accessories. Clothing is shown on actual people.The author does share a few construction details that will help in distinguishing between the decades. This would be a good introduction but not a lot of detail. You will need other books to get a fuller view of the eras. I still recommend the 2 Ellie Laubner books as the best of their kind.

This book was published in the mid-90s & has a comparatively amateurish format. It does show quite a number of garments from the 1920s-1940s but provides very little information about them. It is also difficult to see many details as the photography of the book is somewhat inappropriate. All garments have been photographed being worn by women who are doubtless very pleasant people but not professional models. In consequence the poses are usually unnatural, atypical of the era & with body language that is generally entirely wrong. Aiding & abetting these incongruous displays are hairstyles which are often strikingly modern. Add to this heavy & excessive make-up & you have a photo that is at once ill-matched to the costumes. Backgrounds are mostly gardens - anybody's garden, it seems. The photographs themselves have a glaring quality & all in all they inspire a feeling of great unease.As the book develops, some interesting period illustrations are included but overall it is disappointing. So many photographs do not allow all the detail to be seen, as they would have been on a mannequin with good studio lighting.

This book is dreadful and really amateurish. No real content. Badly taken photos. Do not buy it.