With vintage dresses like Marilyn Monroe's JFK birthday dress selling at auction for more than one million dollars, vintage clothing is clearly "in." Dressing Up Vintage celebrates the best of old-school couture, offering tips on how to spot a valuable garment and how to distinguish one designer from another. An enormous "sources section" features over 600 stores around the world where devotees can purchase vintage clothing. If you love the look of a bygone era, this book is for you! Author Tracy Tolkien is the owner of Steinberg and Tolkien, a vintage clothing store in London which holds one of the largest collection of couture in the world and has attracted the attention of fashion designers John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, among others. She provides a visual tribute to the designer clothes of days past through color and black & white photographs and text, and she explores the various looks of the decades from the 1940s to the 1990s from the debutante to the teenybopper and the hippie to the power dresser. She also offers expert advice on how to spot the features of different designers, how to recognize a valuable piece, and how to care for vintage treasures along with a source guide of about 600 stores worldwide that carry vintage clothing.

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Dressing Up Vintage