Fabulous Frocks: A celebration of dress design

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No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell and our fascination with the frock has not gone away.
This book contains everything you need to know about modern history of dress design, from the corset-free styles of 1920s flappers to the conceptual constructions of modern artists.

Since Coco Chanel invented the little black dress in 1926 it has become a staple for a woman's wardrobe. Even considering the many decades its been since women discovered trousers and separates, women dream of wearing glorious, glamorous gowns, whether its on the Hollywood red carpet, or perhaps on her wedding day

No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell and our fascination with the frock has not gone away.

From Gres draping to Diors New Look, from Mary Quants mini to Hussein Chalayans mechanical marvels and Kate Middletons wedding dress, this book looks at the dress in a century of fashion. Thematic chapters set out the inspirations and implications for each new change in style alongside stunning photography. A celebration of the dress in all its forms,Fabulous Frocksis sure to fire any fashionistas imagination.

A glorious celebration of a hundred years of the dress Daily Mail



Sarah Gristwood is a best-selling Tudor biographer, former film journalist, and commentator on royal affairs.

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'It is the fashionistas must-have'

This truly is a lovely book. While it is a large volume filled with images, it is so much more than a coffee table book to mindlessly flip through. Instead, it is a volume that will inspire further research and is worthy of anyones personal library

A glorious celebration of a hundred years of the dress

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Jane Eastoe has been a journalist and author for over 25 years. She was chief contributor to the National Trust Book of the Countryside and is author of Wild Food, Mushrooms, Home Grown Fruit, Allotments and Britain by Bike, all published by National Trust Books. Sarah Gristwood is a best-selling biographer, former film journalist, and commentator on royal affairs. She has appeared in most of the UK's leading newspapers and magazines. She wrote two bestselling Tudor biographies, Arbella: England's Lost Queen and Elizabeth and Leicester; and the eighteenth-century story Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic which was selected as Radio 4 Book of the Week. A regular media commentator on royal and historical affairs, Sarah was one of the team providing Radio 4's live coverage of the royal wedding. She is a Fellow of the RSA, and an Honorary Patron of Historic Royal Palaces. She is the author of The Story of Beatrix Potter and Game of Queens: The Women Who Made the 16th Century.