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Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan

10 best books like Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan (Aimee Major Steinberger): Twenty Boy Summer, Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey, Displacement: A Travelogue, An Age of License: A Travelogue, Immortal Souls, Moonstruck, Vol. 2: Some Enchanted Evening, The Corset: A Cultural History, Gothic and Lolita, Patternmaking for Fashion Design, Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Twenty Boy Summer
AuthorSarah Ockler
ISBN0316051594
"Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?"
"Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?"

According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar...
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
AuthorAlison Gernsheim
ISBN0486242056
Imagine trying to research late 20th century fashion with nothing but Vogue magazine as a reference. Naturally you would assume that everyone had a BMI of 14%, bizarre hair was the rage, visible hard nipples were just part of the fashion, and we were all running around in the snow like suicidal mantis...
Displacement: A Travelogue
AuthorLucy Knisley
ISBN1606998102
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
An Age of License: A Travelogue
AuthorLucy Knisley
ISBN1606997688
Midnight picnics at the Eiffel Tower; wine tastings paired with blowgun lessons; and romance in cafés, cemeteries, and at the Brandenberg Gate--these are just some of New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley's experiences on her 2011 European book tour. An Age of License is both a graphic...
Immortal Souls
AuthorJoamette Gil
A comics anthology about queer witches for teens and adults ages 14-and-up. The book is over 110 pages long, black and white, and contains 10 original stories by women and non-binary creators of color. In this special installment of the POWER & MAGIC SERIES, queer witches of color delve into the...
Moonstruck, Vol. 2: Some Enchanted Evening
AuthorGrace Ellis
ISBN1534308458
Werewolf barista Julie and her supernatural friends try to unwind at a party, but a conniving fraternity of fairy bros has other plans for our heroes. With one of their friends trapped in the frat house and the winter solstice (a notable night of magical mischief) looming ever-closer, it's up to the amorous...
The Corset: A Cultural History
AuthorValerie Steele
ISBN0300099533
The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health. Why did...
Gothic and Lolita
AuthorMasayuki Yoshinaga
ISBN0714847852
GOTHIC AND LOLITA, edited by Katsuhiko Ishikawa with photographs by Masayuki Yoshinaga, is a new photographic collection that celebrates the eclectic and bizarre street fashion of Japanese popular youth culture. A mixture of high fashion and home-made ensembles, the Gothic and Lolita scene is...
Patternmaking for Fashion Design
AuthorHelen Joseph-Armstrong
ISBN0131112112
Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, this hallmark book offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking...
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
AuthorLucy Johnston
ISBN1851774394
This gorgeous book offers large-scale full-color photographs of detail on a wide variety of nineteenth-century British garments from the Victoria and Albert collection. The silks shine, and the intricate dyed cotton prints pop.

Commentary focuses on construction mechanics and is helpfully...
9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion
AuthorNancy Riegelman
ISBN0132238446
It is published to coincide with "Colors for Modern Fashion" and it is necessary to discuss some of the aspects of the new book to understand the changes in this one. This new edition of "9 Heads" is the re-statement of the author's approach to the subject of black and white drawings, incorporating the...
20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment
AuthorFrançois Boucher

The content would be great if the title has been more precise: Fashion of Rich Europeans.

With a brief execution at the beginning of ancient Middle Eastern fashions (so Boucher can gloss over the fact that Europeans were barbarians who had barely come up with Conan-level of clothes at the...
The History of Underclothes
AuthorC. Willett Cunnington
ISBN0486271242
". . . thoroughness and most impressive scholarship . . . much entertaining detail and . . . pleasant humour." — The Times Literary Supplement (London)
Underwear — practical garments with a utilitarian function or body coverings that serve an erotic purpose? As this fascinating and intelligently...
Draping for Apparel Design
AuthorHelen Joseph-Armstrong
ISBN1563671026
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The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business
AuthorMary Gehlhar
ISBN1427797102
Mary Gehlhar, author, industry authority, and consultant to hundreds of designers, including Zac Posen, Twinkle by Wenlan, Rebecca Taylor, and Cloak, gives readers behind-the-scenes insights and essential business information on creating and sustaining a successful career as an independent...
Figure Drawing Without a Model
AuthorRon Tiner
ISBN0715306464
This unique program uses only memory and imagination. Hone your skills with sketching exercises, briefly review anatomical structure, and explore figure movement. You'll get the lowdown on depicting everything from sitting to sports. See how the body ages, and evoke an amazingly wide range of emotions....
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
AuthorColette Wolff
ISBN0801984963
The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing.
In "The Art of manipulating Fabric," Colette Wolff has set...
Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook
AuthorIzumi Evers
ISBN0811856909
Japanese schoolgirl fashions and subcultures have sprung up, burned out, mutated, and evolved into a pop culture phenomenon gone globalfrom Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku Girls" to Gothic Lolita-fueled manga and the deadly schoolgirl in Kill Bill, it's no wonder that international fashion designers...
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