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Coloring book

Accurate in every detail, this splendid overview of fashions from the second half of the 20th century features the age's most prominent and influential designers. Each of the 140 outfits is identified with the name of the designer, type of costume, and year of its creation.

Accurate representations of 120 costumes by many of the world's most influential designers--from Lanvin and Poiret to Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, and Balmain.Each costume is identified with the name of the designer, the type of costume and the year of it's creation.

They are paper dolls, and they are Sherlock Holmes. AWESOME. Tom Tierney is fabulous.

Following a short introduction about medieval clothing, the rest of the books features some superb black and white drawings, each accompanied with brief text descriptions.

This booklet is exactly what it says in the title - it contains one paper doll and several outfits to give her. The outfits are colonial-era dress. Each dress has a descriptor including approximate date, but not much more is provided by way of historical detail. I paired this with Colonial Clothes by Verna Fisher to make a fun and educational gift.½

Every election this fashion artist and historian creates a facinating paper doll books with historical notes on the costumes. This is the second time George W appears in one of Tierney's books.

Usual excellent Tierney illustrations, historical research, and accurate costumes. The wonderful elaborate costumes of the period make this an especially delightful example of the set.

Essential for costumes for the first families. The artist author documents every item, often linking them to a time and place when they were worn.

Tom Tierney has an enormous body of work illustrating the fashions of the world and of almost all ages (haven't see Neanderthal fashions yet.) He has these extremely detailed coloring books cum reference works, but he is perhaps more famous for his paper dolls.

If the fashion of this era interests you, he has done a number of paper doll books on the late 19th and early 20th century, including Newport Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, Great Fashion Designs of the Belle Epoque: Paper Dolls in Full Color, Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Gibson Girls Paper Dolls in Full Color, High Victorian Fashions Paper Dolls, Worth Fashion Review Paper Dolls. For the slightly less fashionable population, there are Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls and American Family of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls.

Tom Tierney's paper dolls always look a little challenging to cut out, but if you can't bear to, they make excellent fashion references. His books always feature beautiful, full color renderings of the clothing, with accessories and hair styles, as well as helpful explanatory captions with information about fabrics and other details.

He has done a number of books on the late 19th and early 20th century, including Newport Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, Great Fashion Designs of the Belle Epoque: Paper Dolls in Full Color, Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Gibson Girls Paper Dolls in Full Color, High Victorian Fashions Paper Dolls, Worth Fashion Review Paper Dolls. For the slightly less fashionable population, there are Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls and American Family of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls. He also has a coloring book entitled: Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions.

Tom Tierney's paper dolls always look a little challenging to cut out, but if you can't bear to, they make excellent fashion references. His books always feature beautiful, full color renderings of the clothing, with accessories and hair styles, as well as helpful explanatory captions with information about fabrics and other details.

He has done a number of books on the late 19th and early 20th century, including Newport Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, Great Fashion Designs of the Belle Epoque: Paper Dolls in Full Color, Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Gibson Girls Paper Dolls in Full Color, High Victorian Fashions Paper Dolls, Worth Fashion Review Paper Dolls. For the slightly less fashionable population, there are Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls and American Family of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls. He also has a coloring book entitled: Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions.

Tom Tierney's paper dolls always look a little challenging to cut out, but if you can't bear to, they make excellent fashion references. His books always feature beautiful, full color renderings of the clothing, with accessories and hair styles, as well as helpful explanatory captions with information about fabrics and other details.

He has done a number of volumes on this era, including Newport Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, Great Fashion Designs of the Belle Epoque: Paper Dolls in Full Color, Fashions of the Gilded Age Paper Dolls, Gibson Girls Paper Dolls in Full Color, High Victorian Fashions Paper Dolls, Worth Fashion Review Paper Dolls. For the slightly less fashionable population, there are Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls and American Family of the Victorian Era Paper Dolls. He also has a coloring book entitled: Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions.

Tom Tierney has produced (at least) five collections for the 1920s, each focussing on a different aspect of clothing. His American Family collection concentrates on the clothing of ordinary, moderately well-off people. Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties is a collection of haute couture for the period. In addition, he did volumes concentrating on Erte. This falls in between: clothing for those more fashionable than the ordinary person, but not designer pieces.

Tierney's paperdoll clothes would be somewhat difficult to cut out, but these books make an excellent fashion reference. Each piece has a clear description, with details of fabric, hair, etc.

Tom Tierney has produced (at least) five collections for the 1920s, each focussing on a different aspect of clothing. His American Family collection concentrates on the clothing of ordinary, moderately well-off people. His Roaring Twenties collection is about costumes for the younger, more fashionable set. This is a collection of haute couture for the period. There are also volumes of Erte fashions.

Tierney's paperdoll clothes would be somewhat difficult to cut out, but these books make an excellent fashion reference. Each piece has a clear description, with details of fabric, hair, etc.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. This is a broader time period than his 20th century books, so it is perhaps not as detailed, although I suspect that fashion may not have been as changeable in an era when clothing was relatively more expensive and the struggle for survival more intense. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. This volume covers a broader time period than his 20th century works, each of which is usually limited to one decade, so perhaps the detail is not as great. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.½

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on only one or two decades, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on only one or two decades, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

For those interested in more fashionable clothing of the era, Tierney produced Roaring Twenties Paper Dolls about the trendier dressers, Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties: Paper Dolls in Full Color about the haute couture, and More Erte: Fashion Paper Dolls of the Twenties, which title implies that there was another book about the designer/artist Erte.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on only one or two decades, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on only one or two decades, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

This actually proved to be more than I expected: I had supposed that the costumes would be almost entirely English-style, but to my delight, Tierney has also given us Spanish/Portuguese, French, Swiss, Dutch, Norwegian and German costumes spanning the 17th and 18th century. The costumes are focused on fashionable inhabitants of the settlements in the future USA and Canada.

There are two female paper dolls with costume; their male counterparts are represented by paper dolls in 9 different costumes, usually with separate hats, approximately one for every three female costumes. There are two costumes/paperdolls per plate.

The French and English are most heavily represented There are three different sets of French costumes for three different periods. The English style costumes are broken into social categories, e.g., tradesman, Quaker, etc., spread over different periods. The Spanish/Portuguese costumes are all from around 1600; it would have been nice to have some later costumes also. The others are generally represented by one female costume and sometimes a male figure: Plate 10 shows costumes for German and Norwegian women and Plate 11 has a Swiss couple. The reader may want to check Tierney's American Family of the Pilgrim Period, which concentrates on English and Dutch costumes of New England and New York (some of them quite humble), or his coloring book Colonial & Early American Fashions.

As usual, Tierney has included very detailed descriptions of the costumes. One slight fault - the nationality is not always specified both on the plate and in the description, so one has to flip back and forth. No nationality is given at all for Plate 15; I assume from their position that the costumes are French.

A very interesting and informative little book. I sometimes wonder - how many people who buy these actually cut out the dolls, and how many, like me, just want a very nice little costume reference?

Tierney has other paper doll and coloring book collections of fashions for these eras, including Colonial and Early American Fashions (History of Fashion), American Family of the Colonial Era Paper Dolls in Full Color, American Family of the Pilgrim Period Paper Dolls in Full Color, and Little Pilgrim Girl Paper Doll (Dover Little Activity Books).½

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on relatively brief time periods, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period.

I started buying Tierney's American Family series as a reference so that I can better imagine the typical people of a particular period. The more usual documenting of high fashion isn't useful for that purpose, although Tierney usually has a paper doll book for that, too. These are also in full color, whereas contemporary illustrations often are not. I have read costume designers who says that Tierney's books are very helpful to when trying to determine exactly what the customer wants. In this case, it's kind of a hoot for me to be looking at the dimly remembered clothing of early childhood. I wonder how many people buy these books not to play with the dolls, but because they are such a useful and economical reference source. As paper dolls, they look moderately difficult to cut out, owing to all the detail, if one is determined to leave no waste paper.

In these books, Tierney starts with a succinct and well-written description of the era. He creates a story about the family, usually includes three generations of moderately wealthy Americans so that he can display fashions typical of various age groups. He shows clothing suitable for a variety of leisure, work and dress-up occasions, usually including a wedding. Since he focuses on only one decade, they are more informative than most general costume reference books. Each costume has explanatory notes specifying such details as fabrics, hair-styles and precise time period. One of the boys has an extra head of hair for when he tries to adopt the Elvis look.

One disagreement with Tierney: I like the sack dress shown in plate 7!