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By Peter Kimpton

ISBN-10: 1473881293

ISBN-13: 9781473881297

Based upon the author’s huge own selection of attractive type postcards from Edwardian occasions, this ebook takes the reader on a trip via that period – protecting the hat models and social adjustments of the day. Delve extra into the carnage that came about around the globe, during which unscrupulous and funds grabbing members from the Northumbrian coast in England to the Everglades in the USA, may callously slaughter complete colonies of birds (leaving their younger to die) simply to supply the millinery exchange with ornate feathers to accessorize stylish hats in the course of that era.

The e-book additionally takes the reader into the realm of millinery sweatshops of poverty afflicted manhattan and describes the stipulations and deprivations below which the poorly paid employees, a lot of them immigrants, labored. it's also possible to know about the heritage, heritage and notable lifetime of one of many world’s maximum type designers, Coco Chanel, as she set out on her life of style in Edwardian Paris.

With wonderful type color plates of the day, including photos of amazingly artistic and vibrant hat pins from either the united kingdom and the United States, the writer stocks the culmination of his forty years of postcard amassing and the highs and lows of his look for the 'Hats' postcards, as worn by means of his Edwardian 'girlfriends' from over a hundred yr ago.

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