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Dress Shirt Design

By Malie Raef

$79.95

Every element of the man's dress shirt is explored here, including collars, plackets, pockets, shoulder seams, armholes, short sleeves, long sleeves, cuffs, cuff plackets, back yokes, garment shaping, bottom hems, and vents. Written by a...

High Fashion Handbags

By Adrienne Astrologo

$39.95

An essential part of the well dressed woman is her handbag. Here over 300 exquisite color photographs of handbags from the world's top fashion designers are brought together to vie for the attention of collectors,...

Turquoise Jewelry

By Nancy Schiffer

$9.95

This newly revised 4th edition edition displays a wide variety of Southwest Indian-made jewelry which features the many different colors and types of turquoise, depending on their origins. The turquoise mines in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada,...

Kenneth Jay Lane FABULOUS

By Nancy N. Schiffer

$59.95

Kenneth Jay Lane, "the hottest costume jewelry designer around" according to Elle Magazine, has created high-fashion styles for over forty years for royalty, first ladies, celebrities, socialites, movie stars, and fashionable women. This new book...

Mexican Silver

By Penny Chittim Morrill

$59.95

With a new section of maker’s marks and new photographs, here is the powerful story of the silver renaissance in Mexico from the 1920s to the present. The wealth of color photos showcases the incomparable...

Denim

$29.95

In a country that has always prided itself on its toughness, individuality, and youthful spirit, we share one common thread, woven through time and unchanged in popularity -- durable cotton denim jeans. Journey through the...

Breitling

By Benno Richter

$49.95

Breitling. One watch has made this name famous worldwide, the Navitimer. In 1952 this watch was a real sensation, the chronograph along with the calculator made it possible for the pilot to carry out all...

Star Spangled Jewelry

By Sandra J. Whitson

$29.95

Since the early decades of the 20th century, American patriotic jewelry has proclaimed national pride for all who wear and admire it. Flags, eagles, Victory themes, political mascots, and Uncle Sam parade across these pages...

Collecting Handkerchiefs

By Roseanna Mihalick

$24.95

Handkerchiefs are the perfect collectible: they are inexpensive, useful, decorative, fun, and easy to pack in a suitcase! Whether a souvenir of a memorable occasion or a memento from a loved one, this author shows...

T-Shirts

By Susan Miller

$29.95

From costly high-style designer creations to those displaying college and sports team logos, T-shirts have become an international icon. Presented here are over 1200 color images of collectible contemporary T-shirts, divided into groups by...

Shamelessly, Jewelry from Kenneth Jay Lane

By Nancy N. Schiffer

$59.95

Immerse yourself in the flamboyant world of designer Kenneth Jay Lane, whose gorgeous costume jewelry has ornamented the world's most famous and powerful women for more than forty years. Over 670 sparkling color images present...

20th Century Plastic Jewelry

By Roseann Ettinger

$29.95

Explore designs for jewelry in natural and synthetic plastics throughout the 20th century. This fun and visually exciting book presents lavish and popular jewelry designs chronologically, covering many types of plastics — from Bakelite, celluloid,...

A Passion for Purses

By Paula Higgins

$49.95

Women's purses are uniquely personal statements. Many antique beaded, textile, and leather purses have survived as treasured collectibles and new styles are fashion icons. This exquisite new book examines the passionate history, art, and design...

The Alarm Wristwatch

By Michael Philip Horlbeck

$79.95

Finally, alarm wristwatches are recognized for their mechanical ingenuity and the beauty of their design. This new book traces the development of mechanical wristwatches with an acoustic alarm function, one of the first wristwatch complications,...

Egyptian Revival Jewelry & Design

By Dale Reeves Nicholls

$39.95

Jewelry and decorative manufactured goods in Egyptian Revival style capitalized on public fascination resulting from the rediscovery of Egyptian monuments and artifacts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Museum exhibitions, movies, and political...

Fashionable Mourning Jewelry, Clothing, and Customs

By Mary Brett

$59.95

Explore the many fascinating nineteenth century traditions associated with death and mourning. The widespread influence of England's Queen Victoria perpetuated displays of grieving as she, her court, and loyal subjects remained in a state of...

Motorcycle Jackets

By Rin Tanaka

$69.95

The leather motorcycle jacket is more than a coat; it's a mentality. Beginning in the early twentieth century, airplanes, automobiles, and motorcycles redefined freedom, idealized speed, and captured the hearts of men and women alike....

High Fashion Hats, 1950-1980

By Rose Jamieson

$29.95

Pretty flowers, expert styling, and flattering designs characterize some of the features that define high fashion hats of the 1950s to 1980s. This comprehensive book combines over 700 color photographs with carefully researched facts...

Fun Handbags

By Desire Smith

$29.95

Fascinating, fabulous, and fun twentieth century handbags are a delight to look at, to carry, and to collect. The best make you smile because they are especially well designed, beautifully constructed, and a pleasure...

Emmons & Sarah Coventry

By Deborah A. Robinson

$29.95

This comprehensive and invaluable reference guide documents all phases of Emmons and Sarah Coventry jewelry. Over 1,200 items are shown in clear color photographs. Here are styles sold at in-home party fashion shows from 1949...

Zuni Jewelry

By Theda and Michael Bassman

$12.99

This newly revised book presents the beautiful jewelry of the prolific Zuni Indians of New Mexico, who are known the world over for their distinctive designs. From stone, shell, inlay, and silver, Zuni craftsmen have...

Vera Textiles

By Jeanette Michalets

$39.95

"What is old, is new again." Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of fashion and textile design. Vera Neumann, better known simply by her first name and distinctive signature, created clothing and...

1,000 Hats

By Norma Shephard

$39.95

Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats, Pamelas, pillboxes, toreodors, turbans, and wedding hats....