{"id":2688,"date":"2012-03-19T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2012-03-18T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:01:24","slug":"book-highlight-be-dazzled-norman-hartnell-60-years-of-glamour-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/book-highlight-be-dazzled-norman-hartnell-60-years-of-glamour-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Book highlight: Be Dazzled! Norman Hartnell 60 Years of Glamour &#038; Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983388938\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0983388938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51D90ouYrJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I previously wrote about the influence of Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) on English Royal Fashion in 2009 for WornThrough (See <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wornthrough.com\/2009\/08\/26\/norman-hartnell-english-designer\/\">Norman Hartnell: English Designer<\/a><\/em>), and so I was pleased to see this new book on him from Pointed Leaf Press (released just last month): <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983388938\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0983388938\">Be Dazzled! Norman Hartnell: Sixty Years of Glamour and Fashion<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983388938\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0983388938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pointedleafpress.com\/wp-content\/files_flutter\/th_9a2ff6c1b1b7ef36f1bf9fa6b0b12194_1251143545BeDazzled-slideshow-1072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three  ready-to-wear dresses, dating from 1942, brought the allure of the  Hartnell name to the general public during World War II; Hartnell  sporting the British Home Guard uniform in the salon at 26 Bruton  Street. (Via Pointed Leaf Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For this new book, author Michael Pick utilized <strong>unlimited access to the Hartnell archives<\/strong> and provides insights into the designers life and career &#8211; including his royal clientele (Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and lesser Royals). It includes not only examples of his garment design, but also includes shoe designs, as well as &#8220;descriptions and swatches from Hartnell\u2019s personal workbooks detail his  designs from the Queen\u2019s wardrobe from the 1953-54 Royal Tour.&#8221; T<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983388938\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0983388938\">Be Dazzled! Norman Hartnell: Sixty Years of Glamour and Fashion<\/a><\/em> will likely appeal not only to design history buffs and fashion historians, but also to followers of the British Royals. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I previously wrote about the influence of Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) on English Royal Fashion in 2009 for WornThrough (See Norman Hartnell: English Designer), and so I was pleased to see this new book on him from Pointed Leaf Press (released just last month): Be Dazzled! Norman Hartnell: Sixty Years of Glamour and Fashion. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}