{"id":3476,"date":"2012-12-06T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:03:39","slug":"last-call-for-holiday-gift-books-in-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/last-call-for-holiday-gift-books-in-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call for Holiday Gift Books in Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1851775595\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1851775595&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61xm6LZ5QFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1419704478\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1419704478&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.highsnobette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/W-The-first-40-years-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1419704486\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1419704486&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/410OfDjrQTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As you might have noticed, the last few weeks here at FashionHistoria have focused on book reviews. In October I began to receive a steady-stream of packages with glorious, lovely, over sized, and decadent fashion history books. I slowly, but methodically, began sharing their insides with you, starting back in October with <a title=\"Permalink to Katherine Hepburn\u2019s Costumes: A Book and An Exhbition\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/katherine-hepburns-costumes-a-book-and-an-exhbition\/\"><em>Katherine Hepburn\u2019s Costumes<\/em>: A Book and An Exhibition<\/a>. Each week in November, there was a new topic and a new book to explore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"Permalink to Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Colour (An Autobiography)\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/kaffe-fassett-dreaming-in-colour-an-autobiography\/\">Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Colour (An Autobiography)<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permalink to \u201cA to Z of Style\u201d by Amy de la Haye\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/a-to-z-of-style-by-amy-de-la-haye\/\"><em>\u201cA to Z of Style\u201d<\/em> by Amy de la Haye<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Permalink to Lee Alexander McQueen: Love Looks Not With The Eyes\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/lee-alexander-mcqueen-love-looks-not-with-the-eyes\/\">Lee Alexander McQueen: Love Looks Not With The Eyes<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Permalink to W: The First 40 Years\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/w-the-first-40-years\/\">W: The First 40 Years<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just this last week I shared what might have been my favorite of all of them: <a title=\"Permalink to Knitting: Fashion, Industry, Craft by Sandy Black\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/knitting-fashion-industry-craft-by-sandy-black\/\"><em>Knitting: Fashion, Industry, Craft<\/em> by Sandy Black<\/a>. Today, I have the last book to share for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3777451517\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=3777451517&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51YBQx8NeuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>Available as of November 15, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3777451517\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=3777451517&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\">Vernier: Fashion, Femininity, and Form<\/a><\/em> by Robert Muir and Becky Conekin (Hirmer Publishers) offers a highly illustrated documentation of Eugene &#8216;Gene&#8217; Vernier, a photographer at British <em>Vogue<\/em> from 1954-1967. Beautiful, evocative photographs of 1950s British high fashion are included in this volume, with equally stunning essays by Robin Muir, Becky Conekin and Alistair Layzell.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whotalking.com\/flickr\/Vogue\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/5037097993_b9117b445c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Vogue, January 1959 (Cover photo by Eugene &#39;Gene&#39; Vernier)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Admittedly, I had not heard of Vernier (blame it on my American bias), but his covers and interior photography for<em> Vogue<\/em> in the 1950s and 1960s are absolutely stunning, and deserve the attention that this publication brings. For a quick over-view (and sneak-peek at the images included in the book), BBC News has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-13339302\">video interview with Vernier <\/a>from May of last year. More images can be found in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53035820@N02\/sets\/72157626053821203\/\">Flickr set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Allstair Layzell&#8217;s essay, &#8220;Eugene Vernier: A life&#8221; uses the uniquely modern invention of the QR code to link still images to nine clips of film online, allowing readers to see some of Vernier&#8217;s early film work for Pathe (he was a camera man). (I&#8217;ve included one below) It&#8217;s a unique feature of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3777451517\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=3777451517&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20\">Vernier: Fashion, Femininity, and Form<\/a><\/em>, and one that I&#8217;ve not seen implemented in a book before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Around Britain: 1947<\/strong> (Click Image to go to watch the video)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/video\/around-britain-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"AROUND BRITAIN\" src=\"http:\/\/images.britishpathe.com\/?id=40707&amp;num=10&amp;size=thumb\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have noticed, the last few weeks here at FashionHistoria have focused on book reviews. In October I began to receive a steady-stream of packages with glorious, lovely, over sized, and decadent fashion history books. I slowly, but methodically, began sharing their insides with you, starting back in October with Katherine Hepburn\u2019s Costumes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,94,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}