Hold onto your hats and lace up your boots; we’re off on a fashion adventure! Trip through 25 scenes in fashion history, circling the globe with your two young stylish Trip companions—one boy and one girl, dressed the part in each and every picture. Every lavishly illustrated scene captures the mood and style of a unique time and place, accompanied by a trove of fashion history facts.
 
Your journey begins over one hundred years ago, twirling around the ballroom in gowns and tailcoats. Trip on to dress up in Oriental silks to see a performance of the Ballet Russes, shimmy down in the flapper fashion of the Harlem Renaissance, fling your feather boa as you schmooze with movies stars on the Hollywood red carpet, and glue your hair into spikes as a London punk on this celebration of fashion and culture.
 
Every vibrant, style-defining setting shows an array of characters showing off the distinguishing fashions of the time. Captions point out key fashion features, accessories, and cultural influences—like the cycling bloomers of the active and career-driven New Woman at the beginning of the twentieth century, the morale-boosting felt hats worn throughout the Second World War, and the plastic sunglasses inspired by space goggles from the Space Race era. Fact boxes give the time, place, key designers, and trends in silhouettes, hemlines, and sleeves for Every fashion scene.
 
Use the timelines on the back to see how historical events intersect with the evolution of fashion. One timeline summarizes the formative events of the twentieth century and three others highlight trends in shoes, hats, and bags. A Can You Find? page will give you motivation to study the scenes even more closely. Are you able to find a waiter dropping his tray of coffee on the streets of Paris? And a pair of roller skates on the dazzling disco jam?
 
From Bollywood to Hollwood, suburban Canada to the French Riviera—embark on a voyage of discovery. A century of inspiring style awaits…