What Dolls Wore Before: Doll Costumes and Accessories, 1850- 1925

By Florence Theriault. This is the fourth book in a series by the noted author. Nearly 500 antique dolls costumes, shoes, bonnets, baby clothes, undergarments, pinafores, mariner costumes, and folkloric costumes are featured in beautiful explicit photographs. Detailed descriptions help the reader identify materials and construction techniques, how to choose an appropriate costume and how to preserve these rare and fragile reminders of a fashionable past. This is a book for the doll collector and the student of historical fashions. A value guide is included. Softbound, 152 pages. 8 1/2" x 11". BT-172