20,000 Years of Fashion
 Bottom half of book cover with details from colored plates | |
| Author | Francois Boucher & Yvonne Deslandres |
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| Country | United Kingdom, France, United States |
| Language | English, French |
| Genre | Art history |
| Publisher | Harry N Abrams, Groupe Flammarion |
Publication date | 1963-66, 1987 |
| Pages | 441 |
| OCLC | 176250 |
20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment is a dictionary of western fashion from ancient times up to the 1960s, edited by Francois Boucher and his longtime assistant Yvonne Deslandres.
The book is widely cited as a reference for fashion trends in paintings and has 1150 illustrations which are mostly paintings, etchings and engravings from Western museums and collections. The book inlcudes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of sources. It was originally published in French in 1965 as Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours and was translated into English the next year, but was published after Boucher's death. In 1987 Deslandres updated a new edition with a section on modern fashion.
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