Fashion Plates
Fashion Plates

Author: April Calahan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0300212267

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"The images featured in Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style are part of an extensive collection of such plates held by Special Collections & College Archives, a unit of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York"--Preface.

Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795

Author: Carolyn Dowdell

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-12-29

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1000990826

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Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women’s unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way. The book consists of scaled patterns directly based on original French, German and English fashion plates drafted according to period-accurate shapes. The patterns encompass the full look presented in each fashion plate from garments to accessories. These are accompanied by a color image of the corresponding fashion plate, straightforward, illustrated directions for recreating the outfits, information on the material used and modelled reproductions of each plate to demonstrate what they would look like in "real life". The book focuses on unique styles often seen in fashion plates but rarely – if ever – patterned before, making this a fresh and exciting yet historically accurate take on late eighteenth-century fashion. Stitching La Mode significantly expands the understanding of transitional fashions from the late eighteenth century with concrete, physical examples of styles, perfectly suited for costume technicians and makers, costume historians and hobby costumers and re-enactors.

100 Years of Fashion Illustration
100 Years of Fashion Illustration

Author: Cally Blackman

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781856694629

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Suitable for art and fashion professionals, this book offers an overview of the development of fashion.

A Handbook of Costume Drawing
A Handbook of Costume Drawing

Author: Georgia Baker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1136083340

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Perfect for students of costume design and history, A Handbook of Costume Drawing illustrates and describes the dominant male and female costume silhouettes for major historical periods ranging from Egyptian dynasties through the 1960s. Important details, including head and footwear, hair styles, fashion accessories, shoulders, waist, hem, and neckline are provided to maximize the historical accuracy of each design and to help you fully recreate the look and feel of each period.

Labour of the Stitch
Labour of the Stitch

Author: Serena Dyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1009188712

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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

Where Stuff Comes From
Where Stuff Comes From

Author: Harvey Molotch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1135946345

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Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.