Life & Times Bibliography




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TitleCommentsAuthorCategory
Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900Very detailed notes on Construction of clothing, including scale drawings from which you might get a pattern.

Norah WaughCostume
Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930Very detailed notes on Construction of clothing, including scale drawings from which you might get a pattern.

Norah WaughCostume
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth-CenturyGives a blow by blow account of each year's fashions from 1800 to 1900, putting each trend into its historical and social context. Includes hair styles, sleep wear, undergarments and accessories.

C. Willett CunningtonCostume
Fabric of Society: A Century of People and Their Clothes, 1770-1870Everything about making (printing cloth,inventing tape measures), buying (at the best warehouses), wearing (including underwear, handkerchiefs) and caring for clothes in Georgian and Victorian times.

Jane Tozer, Sarah LevittCostume
Federalist & Regency Costume: 1790-1819These are complete with patterns of garments for men, woman and boys. Of great interest are the uniforms added to the American version which reflect on the war of 1812. Additionally there is news and descriptions of fashions for women from The Lady's Magazine (1796) and La Belle Assemblee (1807), and for both men and women from Le Beau Monde (1806-9). Also included are numerous beautiful fashion plates and patterns for embroidery.

R. L. ShepCostume
Jane Austen Fashion Fashion and needlework in the works of Jane Austen

Penelope Byrde Costume
Late Georgian Costume: The Tailor's Friendly Instructor (1822 and the Art o.

James Wyatt, R.L. ShepCostume
Patterns of Fashion: 1660-1860.

Janet ArnoldCostume
Revolution in Fashion: European Clothing, 1715-1815Very rare and expensive book.Produced by the Kyoto Costume insitute in conjunction with an exhibiton of the same name.A series of articles on fashion of the period are well written and illustrated but the joy of the book is the detailed photographs of the exhibits.

Jean Starobinski Costume




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