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Secrets of Female Impersonation
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHollywood Illusion Studio
Hollywood: Hollywood Illusion Studio, No date.Late 1980s mail-order catalogue offering a comprehensive range of products for male-to-female crossdressing, including corsetry, waist cinchers, brassieres, breast forms, hosiery, garter belts, high-heeled shoes, gloves, wigs, and artificial nails. Features a sizing chart and practical guidance notes aimed at transvestites. Covers and one interior illustration by the pin-up artist Bill Ward.
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Betty’s Latex Fashions Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty’s Latex Fashions
Erin: Betty’s Services, No date.The first two catalogues for Canadian mail order rubberwear business Betty’s Latex Fashions.
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Tyson-Rose Rubber Garments Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyson-Rose Co.
Guttenberg: Tyson-Rose Company, No date.Two catalogues for New Jersey mail order rubberwear business Tyson-Rose Co.
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Robert Payne Presents The Levis Crowd
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[John Embry]
: N.p., No date.A selection from the gay physique photographic archive of Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG), compiled by Drummer magazine co-founder John Embry under his Robert Payne pseudonym in the years leading up the magazine’s beginnings. The publication brings together masculine imagery of the American outdoorsman in Levi’s, with a centre spread featuring prominent American porn actor and director Fred Halsted.
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The Berlei Review Volume 15, 1936
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBerlei
Sydney: Berlei Ltd., 1936.A bound set of the complete volume 15 of The Berlie Review, being the company journal for Australian lingerie company Berlie for the year 1936. Volume 15 comprises 10 parts, with January/February and October/November being double issues. Founded by Fred R. Burley and first operating in Sydney from 1910 as Unique Corsets, before Frenchifying to Berlie in 1917, with the vision “To Design and Manufacture Corsets and Brassieres of such perfect Fit, Quality, and Workmanship, as will bring pleasure and profit to all concerned, while at the same time rendering such excellent service to our Clients and Consumers as will merit their permanent patronage.” Burlei Australia is still operating today.
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The Fabrics of Culture: The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJustine M. Cordwell; Ronald A. Schwarz
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Customized Body
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHousk Randall; Ted Polhemus
London: Serpent’s Tail, 2000. -
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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Boy George Fashion & Make-up Book
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Winder; Gerardine Winder; Christina Saunders
London: Hamlyn, 1984.Everything you need to know to achieve that early 1980s Boy George look you always wanted.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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City Indians: Photographs of Western Tribal Fashion
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Wroblewski; Nelly Gomez-Vaez
Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1983.Photographic study of youth subculture in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Divided into sections: Mohicans, Piercing, Skinheads, Rock and Roll, Sons of Hell, Leather, Sic Boys, Dress, Tattoo, Hare Krishna, and Rasta. This copy inscribed by Wroblewski on the title page and with an inscribed laid in postcard of his photograph of one of the tattooed subjects featured in the book.
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The Dansant at the Cafe Royal, London, 1971 [Programme]
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Roe; Margot Macrae; Cecil Beaton; Hettie Jacques
Paris and London: Nina Ricci, 1971.Programme for The Dansant ’71 insired by L’Air du Temps by Nina Ricci, created by Derek Roe. Texts by Margot Macrae and Cecil Beaton. The occasion presented fifty years of fashion from the Cecil Beaton Collection. The programme consists primarily of British advertisements, highlights include an advert for Valium Roche. This copy signed by English actress Hettie Jacques (1922-1980) to the front cover. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Designer’s Guide: Easton Pearson Archive
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRenai Grace; Madeleine Johns; Alice Payne; Pamela Easton; Lydia Pearson
Brisbane: Museum of Brisbane, 2018.Produced to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane, 23 November, 2018 – 22 April, 2019.
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Katalog Der Freiherrlich Von Lipperheide’schen Kostumbibliothek (2 Volumes)
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Franz Freiherr von Lipperheide]
Storrs-Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, No date.Catalogue of the Lipperheide Costume Library. 310 illustrations in v.1, 293 in v.2. Limited edition of 150 copies.
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The Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.: Designers and Makers of Savoyard Fine Clothing
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.
London: Savoy Taylors’ Guild, No date.1920s men’s fashion catalogue for the well dressed man. Founded in 1906 Savoy Taylors Guild based in London’s Strand (and operating there until only recently) aimed “to supply high-grade outfitting for men, in commodious surroundings, giving honest value and exercising an unceasing effort to satisfy the wishes of its customers”. This early catalogue, illustrated by Minister & Co., shows a range of suits for everyday, lounging, formal occasions, around town, playing golf, and while driving the automobile or travelling aboard the steamer. OCLC shows no holdings of any Savoy Taylors Guild catalogue or archive. This copy with two 1928 newspaper clippings laid in, being Parts II and III of Clothes and the Man by Clive Hamilton.
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Souvenir Programme: Crowning Ceremony: Miss Sydney Competition, Anzac House Appeal
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReturned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens Imperial Australia League
Sydney: The Market Print, 1944.Programme for a beauty pageant at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Saturday, 9th September, 1944, organised by the RSL to raise funds for development of Anzac House, Sydney. Contains a brief pitch for the development, programme of events, and portraits of the competitors, most representing different government departments and ministries.
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Australian Style Issue #1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea Horwood
Perth: Australian Style, 1993.First issue of Australian 1990s fashion magazine Australian Style featuring Kylie Minogue on the cover. This issue features a series of portraits of Minogue by Tony Notarberardino smoking, but with the cigarette edited out, though one image remains with stick in hand. Also features Greta Scacchi, Andrew Ettinghausen, Graeme Murphy, rodeo sports, Stompem Ground ’92, Hunters and Collector’s Mark Seymor, and more.
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Mie Kimono Shiryokan Zuroku
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUeda Mie
Tokyo: Mie Kimono Shiryokan, 1983.Catalogue of kimono designs.
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Tokyo Innocence
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMika Ninagawa
Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 2013.Photographic portraiture of colourful Tokyo subcultures.
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Soled Out: The Golden Age of Sneaker Advertising
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Wood; Sneaker Freaker
London: Phaidon, 2021.“Soled Out is an epic compilation of nearly 900 vintage print advertisements sourced from the golden age of sneakers. Featuring sporting and cultural icons such as Andre Agassi, Paula Abdul, Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, MC Hammer, and Shaquille ONeal, every page is packed with unforgettable imagery, bold graphics, and outrageous trash talk devised by the footwear industrys biggest players. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular scenery ahead as Soled Out powers through a 720-page marathon celebration of the rubber, leather, and mesh we wear on our feet!” (publisher’s blurb)