Late Victorian Women's Tailoring

Late Victorian Women's Tailoring

Author: Thomas Hiram Holding

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The facsimile of a manual with patterns, cutting and sewing instructions for jackets, skirts, coats, capes, riding and cycling clothes. Also includes braiding designs for trim and underwear.


Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques

Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques

Author: Kristina Harris

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0486320170

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Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.


Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques

Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques

Author: S. S. Gordon

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0486412415

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Classic 1901 guide to cutting ladies' tailor-made clothing includes patterns and detailed instructions for creating over 60 garments and parts of wearing apparel: leg-o-mutton sleeves, broad collars, military cape, knickerbockers, bloomers, opera cloak, riding breeches, and much more. The perfect reference for recreating vintage clothing for costume parties and theatrical productions.


Making Edwardian Costumes for Women

Making Edwardian Costumes for Women

Author: Suzanne Rowland

Publisher: Crowood

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1785001035

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Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and accessories that might have been worn by an Edwardian governess, a woman travelling on an ocean liner, a campaigning suffragette, or a wife overseeing a busy household in a large country house. It explains making sequences in full and advises in detail on how to give the garments a fine, authentic finish. Eleven detailed projects are included, based on the dress collections at Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Each project includes a detailed description of the original garment, with an accompanying illustration alongside photographs of the original pieces, and scaled patterns are included for all projects with a list of materials and equipment required. Includes step-by-step instructions with information about the original techniques used and close-up photographs of the making process, with further chapters on tools and equipment, fabrics, measurements and sizes, and how to wear Edwardian fashion with ideas on creating new outfits from the featured projects. Also includes advice on how to adapt garments to make them suitable for both wealthy, leisured women, and for their poorer counterparts. Aimed at costume makers, museums and re-enactors and beautifully illustrated with 200 colour photographs.


Regency Women's Dress

Regency Women's Dress

Author: Cassidy Percoco

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1849943516

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The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen. Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning collection of 26 garments, many with clear provenance tied to a specific location, which have never before been published and never – or very rarely – displayed. Most of the garments have an aspect in their construction that has not been previously documented, from a style of skirt trim to the method of gown closure. This practical guide begins with a general history of the early 19th-century women's dress. This is followed by 26 patterns of gowns, spencers, chemises, and corsets, each with an illustration of the finished piece and description of its construction. This must-have guide is an essential reference for anyone interested in the fashions or the history of the period, or for anyone wishing to recreate their own beautiful Regency clothing.


The Medieval Tailor's Assistant

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant

Author: Sarah Thursfield

Publisher: Costume & Fashion Press/Quite Specific Media

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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La 4e de couverture indique : "A comprehensive guide to making period clothes for living history, re,enactment, plays and pageants..."


Stays and Corsets

Stays and Corsets

Author: Mandy Barrington

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1317700740

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Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and corsets.


The Cult of Chiffon

The Cult of Chiffon

Author: Marian E. Pritchard

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0486809404

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"The subject of woman, that is to say, the modern woman, with her varying instincts, pursuits, and peculiarities alone would fill many large volumes. I feel bound, therefore, to confine myself to the discussion of one particular side of her nature, one for which personally I have most sympathy, and one which perhaps can best be described by the epithet 'womanly.'" Originally published in 1902, this extremely rare volume offers a remarkable snapshot of the fashionable Edwardian woman. The author — fashion editor for The Lady's Realm, a monthly London magazine for more "enlightened" readers — offers rich counsel on how to cultivate charm and social standing through the subtle art of dress. Illustrated fashion tips feature a wide range of advice on corsets, petticoats, hats, jewelry, footwear, accessories, and more, with chapters on "The All-Important Question of Colour," "Hats Sublime and Ridiculous," "The Revival of Fashions of the Past," and "The Aggressiveness of the Smart Woman." A selection of vintage advertisements for London-area fashion shops is also included.


The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking

The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking

Author: Lauren Stowell

Publisher: PAGE STREET PUB

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1624144535

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"This comprehensive guide will walk you through how to make and wear your 18th century dream gown. [The authors] have endeavored to ... [bring] historically accurate dressmaking techniques into your sewing room. Learn how to make four of the most iconic 18th century silhouettes--the English Gown, Sacque Gown, Italian Gown and Round Gown--using the same hand sewing techniques done by historic dressmakers. From large hoops to full bums, wool petticoats to grand silk gowns, ruffled aprons to big feathered hats, this manual has project patterns and instructions for every level of 18th century sewing enthusiast"--Amazon.com.