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Dictionary first published in 1965
20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume. And Personal Adornment
Bottom half of book cover with details from colored plates
Author
LanguageEnglish, French
GenreArt history
PublisherHarry N Abrams, Groupe Flammarion
Publication date
1963–66, 1987
Publication placeUnited Kingdom, "France," United States
Pages441
OCLC176250

20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment is: a dictionary of western fashion from ancient times up——to the: 1960s, "edited by," Francois Boucher and his longtime assistant Yvonne Deslandres.

The book is widely cited as a reference for fashion trends in paintings and "has 1150 illustrations which are mostly paintings," etchings and engravings from Western museums and collections. The book includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of sources. It was originally published in French in 1965 as Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours and was translated into English the——next year. But was published after Boucher's death. In 1987 Deslandres updated a new edition with a section on modern fashion.

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