Costumes of Western Europe
MI S s IRIS AL BROOKE'S account of cost tune and fashion in Western Europe, which she now completes in a second volume, makes a very useful companion study to her history of English costume. Those who already possess Volume 1. will be glad to know that a proper and adequate index for both parts is now provided ill Volume 11. In this, as in all her other books, she proves herself to bo an excellent costume artist, with a distincti v e and pleasing style by no means lacking in variety. She is almost equally happy with bold and simple outlines and the sweeping draperdetail which make the fine lady and gentleman of these later centuries. In the present volume the three-figure groups in which she depicts sixteenth-century French, Spanish and Dutch styles, side by side, of or such graphic comment and contrast that further explanation is practically superfluous. "Western European Costume. Seventeenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century, and Its Relation to the Theatre," by Iris Brooke. (Harrap).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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