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Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe - A History in Layers (Paperback) Loot Price: R894
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Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe - A History in Layers (Paperback): Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Barbara Belle Sloan

Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe - A History in Layers (Paperback)

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Barbara Belle Sloan

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In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added, so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas.

Lavishly illustrated, "Resplendent Dress" from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- and twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items, including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating detail.

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Imprint: Fowler Museum Of Cultural History,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2013
First published: April 2013
Editors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber • Barbara Belle Sloan
Dimensions: 305 x 229 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 978-0-9847550-3-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Oriental art
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LSN: 0-9847550-3-9
Barcode: 9780984755035

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