Tom Tierney

2 dolls and 24 costumes recreate turn-of-the-century charm of the Gibson Girl--created by foremost American illustrator. For doll collectors, fashion historians.

Loved and revered around the world, Nelson Mandela fought South Africa's system of apartheid and promoted racial harmony as well as equal rights. This collection features more than 30 historically accurate and meticulously re-created outfits for Mandela and his wives, from khaki prison uniforms to colorful batik shirts and tribal robes.

Color a gallery of scintillating styles that made the Twenties roar Fashion took a dramatic turn during the Jazz Age, and this coloring book recaptures the bobbed hairdos, cloche hats, and other daring and distinctive style hallmarks of the era. Thirty pages of fashion feature sporty and casual outfits as well as glamorous evening gowns and dresses trimmed with fringe, beading, and sequins. Brief captions accompany the pictures.

Carefully researched collection of 44 ready-to-color illustrations spotlights more than five centuries of fashions from India's colorful past, among them the sari, a long, gracefully draped gown worn by women; full, trousers, worn by both sexes; jodphurs--trousers westernized into riding breeches; as well as Pashmina shawls, turbans, and other accessories. A delightful collection for coloring book fans and admirers of Indian culture; of immense value to costume designers and fashion historians.

Paper dolls and accurate costume details help take you inside the world of Marie Laveau (1794 -1881) New Orleans' powerful "voodoo queen." Laveau was both widely respected as a healer to all who sought her help and feared as a woman capable of putting a powerful hex on any enemy. She bartered information, liaisons, and love potions to black and white alike, and was believed capable of solving everything from unrequited love to the desire to win elections. Join the fascinated onlookers who once paid admission to watch her lead the famous Voodoo rituals in Congo Square. Marie Laveau left a legacy on the spiritual life of New Orleans, melding Voodoo traditions from Africa and Haiti with Catholic symbols and customs. This book includes dolls of Laveau at various stages of her life, along with the important people in her life, including lovers, mentors, and all-important Voodoo deities.

You’ll love this new deluxe edition of an underground classic. Meet 37 outrageous, sexy, glamorous swinging singles and socialites at a fabulous Manhattan cocktail party hosted by "Aunt Mary." A parade of gay and lesbian stereotypes are trotted out in paper doll form for perusal in this reprint of the iconic, highly collectible Attitudes book first released by renown paper doll artist Tom Tierney in 1979. This new volume has been recreated, now in full color and with six new characters, to commemorate one of the early books in a long series of paper doll books for which Tierney has become famous. Enjoy hairdressers, movie stars, millionaires, models, drag queens, and others, each nearly naked in seductive loungerie, and with character appropriate clothing.

Paper doll artist Tom Tierney turns his attention to his home state, dishing up a dose of history along with his fashionably accurate dolls. Texas is loaded with women who've achieved stardom, including Mary Martin, Ann Sheridan, Jayne Mansfield, Carol Burnett, Renee Zellweger, Salina, and Beyonce Knowles, as well as powerhouse politicoes, including Ima Hogg, "Ma" Ferguson, Ann Richards, and Barbara Jordan. In all, eleven Texas women are represented in full color, each with three carefully researched costumes.

A fashion parade of 25 ensembles by the innovative style setter who created the "New Look" — ankle-length hemlines, pillbox hats, elbow-length gloves, A-line dresses, and extravagant evening gowns with crinolines — that made him the undisputed fashion leader of the post-World War II era. 2 dolls. Introduction and notes.

Tierney captures the extravagant fashions worn from the 1860s through 1910. Carefully researched, accurately rendered illustrations depict opera capes, frock coats, trousers, top hats, and knitted swimwear for men. The ladies' styles include narrow-skirted walking suits, bathing outfits that completely cover the figure, and billowing bloomers for bicycling. 29 black-and-white illustrations.

Who were the Cavaliers and what elaborate hairstyles did they introduce? Did seventeenth-century Puritans wear only simple, unadorned black outfits? Coloring book fans find out with the help of this educational, accurately rendered fashion survey of the period. Notes. 45 black-and-white plates.

Clothing worn by plantation society shortly before the beginning of the Civil War. This collection of 29 carefully researched illustrations captures the fine details of these garments, which include walking costumes, evening gowns, morning and afternoon dresses, and wedding apparel for women, as well as suits, vests, trousers, and handsome military uniforms.

45 accurate depictions of 17th-century Puritans, an indentured servant, an English officer and his lady, pirates, a colonial merchant's family of the mid-1700s, more. Descriptive captions.

The essential little black dress, the elegant suit with the gold-buttoned jacket, the freedom to wear slacks — modern women still draw upon the innovations of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. This collection features 3 dolls and 28 authentic costumes that illustrate Chanel's haute couture history and the enduring appeal of her designs.

For colorists of all ages� 745 striking illustrations of officers in handsome military outfits, ladies in elegant daytime and evening dresses and children in apparel mirroring adult fashions. Captions.

This coloring book panorama of late-18th- and early-19th-century French fashions offers a fascinating survey of styles. 45 plates of detailed, accurate illustrations include representations of claw-hammer frock coats and vests for the well-dressed man, loose pantaloons and shorter skirts for the working classes, high-waisted promenade gowns for fashionable ladies, and accessories. 45 black-and-white illustrations.