Faded Splendour » Books http://www.fadedsplendour.com Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:15:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Shop Window Displays and Vintage Mannequins http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/09/08/301/ http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/09/08/301/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:21:23 +0000 Faded Splendour http://www.fadedsplendour.com/?p=301 Whilst browsing a secondhand bookshop in Norwich recently, I came across this beautiful book on The Art of Draping from 1936.

The shop window displays of the time are quite stunning, as are the mannequins..  The pictures in the book are quite small so I have blown them up and enhanced as best I could.

The mannequins were made by British Display Figures Ltd.

]]> http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/09/08/301/feed/ 0 1940′s Fashion Magazines…Raffia and Felt http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/06/20/1940s-fashion-magazinesraffia-and-felt/ http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/06/20/1940s-fashion-magazinesraffia-and-felt/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:11:12 +0000 Faded Splendour http://www.fadedsplendour.com/2009/06/20/1940s-fashion-magazinesraffia-and-felt/