A charming book of fashion wonderful illustrations children will love the bright colors fashionistas will love seeing clothes from the past and present.#netgalley #thatlooksgoodonyou

Not my favorite. While the illustrations had plenty to look at, there wasn't much in the way of plot.

Every book, its reader. This is one of those misunderstood books that may find it difficult to find an audience. However, I think it has potential for those who like drawing and design. I found it inspirational because while looking at the pictures I found myself whishing I could try out some of those drawings myself. It shows how clothing has been influenced by time, environment, weather, activities, technology, imagination, etc. The book does not try to be more than it is; a collection of pictures that will certainly make you think about how cloths have evolved and how they have always been part of our history. So, give the book a chance and try to see what the book is offering without judging it too harsh too soon.

Absolutely loved it!
It was fresh, absolutely adorable with a hell lot of cuteness. Unlike most other fashion history picture books, this book is almost completely composed of adorable flat style pictures, instead of 60 percent illustrations and 40 percent of words. For most kids, I believe, prefer colorful pictures instead of words, for that they provide direct visual information. The variety of colors is eye-catching, and can always attract interest from younger readers.
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Overall: 5/5
Cover: 4.5/5 (Pink with khaki? HMMM.)
Pictures: 5/5 (I love flat style.)
Appealing: 5/5
Do I want to buy it?: Yes.

I enjoyed the graphics in this book, but couldn't really see the point of a lengthy book filled in its entirety with images and no narrative. There are only so many times you can sit and flick through pictures - surely this would have been better with a small amount of text for parents to read to their kids in order to look through the book in a more structured way and open up some discussion around the outfits. I am a little unsure of the point of this book to be honest!

I'm not quite sure who this book is meant for, and that is never a good thing.

This is a picture, of Wesstern European clothing, through the ages, from "cave-men" to current fashions. The history of white people, told through clothing. There is no information, other than what each costume time period it covered (in the back of the book).

I have been trying to figure out how to review this. There are many better books out there, if you want the history of clothing in Western society, and why would you limit yourself to that?

With no information, no backup text, on the importance of this or that, such as how hoop skirts were made, or how corsets constrained women's bodies, I'm not sure why anyone would want this book.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This book is much different than I was expecting. It’s a wordless trip through fashion time. It’s all down with angular but colorful illustrations, depicting the clothing of the time. You can try and guess what time, but as I was, sometimes you are wrong. The chart at the end is helpful, but I would have preferred the info snippets on the pages with the pictures.

A children’s book about the history of fashion. Okay. . .
What age group is this for when they’re expected to know what avant-garde means?
The rows of hairstyles and hats remind me of picking out the perfect emoji.
Then it actually does portray clothes throughout the ages, though the attempts at context aren’t enough. (At the end there’s a timeline that offers time, place, and what the clothing is.)
Hard to see the point of it, when you could be teaching kids something more valuable.

Very very clever and fun to look at. A humorous, whimsical look at fashion down through the ages. Though the pages are wordless (no descriptions accompany the illustrations), a pictorial key appears at the end of the book with thumbnail illustrations and captions. The kind of book one might leave on a coffee table for guests to enjoy. This is not merely a children's book.

However, a technical correction is in order regarding the portrayal of Adam and Eve in the beginning of the book (they are not included in the thumbnails at the back--or if they are, we missed them). Biblically=speaking, they were clothed 'after' eating the fruit of the tree, which was not necessarily an apple (as portrayed in popular culture). See Genesis, chapter 3.

I really enjoyed all of the illustrations and obvious research done into European and American fashion through the ages. What I had trouble with was how every single person is Caucasian. Every. Single. One. I just can't get past that.

It is a funny read, with nice illustrations that can keep an active kid focused for a couple of good minutes!

This wordless picture book takes the reader on a journey from the beginning of time and across the millennia to show us the various garbs adopted by man since that time. I was breezing along the book, smiling at the gorgeous illustrations when I suddenly encountered a page-long spread about children laboring in a sweatshop. It made me love the book even more. It does not hide the darker side of the fashion industry.