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Author Joel, Alexandra, 1953-

Title Best dressed : 200 years of fashion in Australia / Alexandra Joel
Published Sydney : Collins, 1984

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 MELB FOLIO  391.00994 J64B  UNAVAILABLE
Description 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary "In this book the author has tried to avoid an 'academic' approach, but instead has tried to create an accessible history which relates fashion's changing nature to the broad development of Australian society as a whole. Not just the events of the past, but what we have seen on the street, on the beach, in newspaper headlines, trendy boutiques and favourite magazines have been covered, so as to establish underlying themes from what has formerly been just a proliferation of disparate trends and images. Although the Colonial and Victorian periods are included, the book's main domain lies in the twentieth century. It looks not only at those fashions which have been created in Australia or imported from abroad, but also at the marvellous style-setters who wore them as well as the effects they created." -Introd
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page 219
Subject Clothing and dress -- Australia -- History.
Costume designers -- Australia.
Costume -- Australia -- History.
Fashion -- Australia -- History.
LC no. 84254325
ISBN 0002173034 (paperback)