20,000 Years of Fashion

1965 book by Francois Boucher and Yvonne Deslandres 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment 20,000 Years of Fashion by Boucher.jpg Bottom half of book cover with details from colored plates Francois Boucher Yvonne Deslandres United Kingdom, France, United States English, French Art history Harry N Abrams Groupe Flammarion 1963–66, 1987 441 176250 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. Overview 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. Publishing 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. Bibliography Book review in Publishers Weekly Category:1963 non-fiction books Category:20th-century history books Category:History of fashion