Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Book #6: Fashion from the Year 1916 (Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Books) - Softcover

Price, Nancy J

9781944633042: Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Book #6: Fashion from the Year 1916 (Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Books)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944633049 ISBN 13: 9781944633042

Publisher: Synchronista LLC, 2016

This is not a typical coloring book! It features authentic vintage images that were drawn a century ago.

Around the year 1916, shortly after the Edwardian Era came to a close, fashion was in a state of flux.

Women's clothing styles were finally shifting away from bustles and tight corsets, high necklines and long skirts. Instead, there was more of an emphasis on natural waistlines, fuller -- often shorter -- skirts, and smaller hats.

"Flounces of all sorts and ruffles of every possible width are smart," wrote the designers behind the popular May Manton patterns. Also on trend: beads, embroidery, fine stitchery, "broad hips, comparatively short skirts, the drooping shoulders, the dainty under sleeves, frills and the like."

Between the covers of this book, you will find 44 coloring pages showing the tea gowns, simple frocks, swimwear and "sport costumes" that were popular in the United States during that simpler time a century ago.

Now, get ready to take a look back to a century ago, and give these clothes the color and verve they have been missing for all of these years.

Note: In keeping with the original designs, the pictures are often very intricate, and there are large areas of black on certain pages. We chose not to over-simplify the artwork because of the tremendous amount of detail (and personality) that would be lost in the process. Please visit the publisher's site at Synchronista.com to view thumbnails of the illustrations in this book.

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