Out-Of-Style: A Modern Perspective of How, Why and When Vintage Fashions Evolved - Softcover

Shubert, Betty Kreisel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098357619X ISBN 13: 9780983576198

Publisher: Flashback Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Fascinated by fashion design and fashion history?  Love vintage clothes & costume?  Interested in Genealogy and how to time-date old family photos through fashion?  Want a beloved fashion coffee table book filled with gems of social history?  Need a stylish gift?

Winner of FIVE AWARDS for Best Book ● 2017 rave video review by Jack Canfield of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" ● Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2013 ● 2016 Hollywood Book Festival Awards: History ● 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards: Performing Arts, Film & Theater ● 2014 USA Best Book Awards: Performing Arts, Film & Theater ● 2014 Family Tree Magazine UK, named "OUR TOP CHOICE" ● 40 Amazon 5-STAR reviews 
 
Famous Hollywood costume designer turned fashion historian and author-illustrator, Betty Kreisel Shubert, has written a ground breaking book inspired by the need of genealogists to date old family photos, as well as the research needs of vintage clothing collectors, costume designers, theatre companies, social historians, and Fashionistas.
Fascinating gems of social history are woven into stories of How, Why, and especially When vintage fashions evolved ... written by an experienced costume designer with an insightful sense of humor ... making this a surprisingly good read.
 
Over 700 charming, sequential illustrations reveal style clues that time-date clothes & old photographs of the 19th-21st centuries, making this, your primary "go-to" reference book... 
Out-of-Style has testimonials from famous genealogists, university professors of theatre, Disneyland designers, and many more.
 
Out-of-Style has been added to all campus libraries at the prestigious FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising) and at the Ringling College of Art and Design for their film program.  Out-of-Style was reviewed by the Costume Society of America and added to their book store.
 
"This broad compilation of evolving fashion...makes a valuable addition to any reference collection " says Kirkus Reviews.
 
"As a real plus, it is a fabulously fascinating, FUN book to read!" (MidwestBook Review)
 
For more book and author details see website: outofstylethebook.com

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Jack Canfield, author of the best-selling series "Chicken Soup For the Soul," does a rave 15 minute video review/interview of Betty Kreisel Shubert and discusses why he loves the book:  youtube.com/watch?v=1pa61n88iVQ
Goodreads Blog: goodreads.com/author/show/6646902.Betty_Kreisel_Shubert/blog
Ancestry Blog: blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/author/bettyshubert/

Library of Congress Number: 2012952901
Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0983576198
Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0983576167

© Copyright 2013 by Betty Kreisel Shubert

About this title

From the Author

One day I found myself walking to our clubhouse with a woman who was on her way to a genealogy club meeting. She was carrying old family photographs that she could not date.

"Show them to me," I said. "I can tell by the clothes about when the pictures were taken."

This simple statement brought an invitation for me to be guest speaker at the next genealogy club meeting and changed my career focus from Costume Designer to Fashion Historian, Author-Illustrator and Columnist for Ancestry Magazine.

I arrived at the genealogy club meeting armed with sketches especially created to illustrate my talking points. There was so much interest in my subject that, for months afterward, people came to me to decipher their treasured, vintage photographs.

Always interested in writing, I decided to write a much needed book, especially for genealogists...But, a funny thing happened as I developed the proposed book: It became apparent that, in addition to genealogists, I would be writing a new kind of history of costume book, of value also to schools, libraries, theatre companies and anyone interested in fashion. I realized that my knowledge of clothing construction and ability to articulate and illustrate changes in fashion would help make other history of costume books...already in libraries...more easily understood.

However, after I finished writing Part One, the 19th Century, and began writing of the 20th century, an interesting expansion of purpose occurred: Having begun my long career when I sold my first design in 1938 at age thirteen, I have been an active observer and working professional for several decades of the 20th century.

When I began writing of the 1930s and 1940s, memories, personal experiences and educated observations began to find themselves on these pages. All by itself, my book had evolved into a personal journal, documenting the evolution of fashion as I witnessed it and the social history that influenced fashion changes in those long-gone years.

It was then that I realized that since we are now well into the 21st century, my information as a contemporary observer is of particular value to people for whom the 20th century is as vague and distant as the 19th century had always been to me. I hope to close that gap for posterity.

From the Back Cover

Fascinating gems of social history are woven into stories of How, Why, and especially When vintage fashions evolved ... written by an experienced costume designer with an insightful sense of humor ... making this a surprisingly good read.

• Hundreds of sequential illustrations reveal the style clues that time-date each decade from the 19th through the 20th century and beyond.
  
• Finally! ... an easy way for genealogists to time-date their ol;d family photographs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flashback Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 098357619X
• ISBN 13: 9780983576198
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 372