The Cut of Men's Clothes
The Cut of Men's Clothes

Author: Norah Waugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1135855897

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This book traces the evolution of the style of men's dress through a sequence of diagrams accurately scaled down from patterns of actual garments, many of them rare museum specimens. The plates have been selected with the same purpose. Some are photographs of suits for which diagrams have also been given; others, reproduced from paintings and old prints, show the costume complete with its accessories. Quotations from contemporary sources--from diaries, travelers' accounts and tailors' bills--supplement Norah Waugh's text with comments on fashion and lively eyewitness descriptions.

Men's 17th & 18th Century Costume, Cut & Fashion
Men's 17th & 18th Century Costume, Cut & Fashion

Author: Ronald I. Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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"This is a comprehensive guide to understanding and creating men's costumes and fashions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As well as being historically accurate, the author's patterns have been prepared so that they fit the modern male figure and adapted so that they can be readily constructed using today's fabrics and sewing techniques."--Back cover.

How to Make Men's Clothes
How to Make Men's Clothes

Author: Jane Rhinehart

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780385018500

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Offers guidance in selecting materials and patterns and explains traditional tailoring techniques for coats and trousers

Costume Close-up
Costume Close-up

Author: Linda Baumgarten

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Costume Close-up discusses the cut, fit, and construction of antique clothing of the second half of the eighteenth century. It will enable talented artisans with advanced skills to construct authentic garments and show curators, conservators, costumers, and reenactors new ways to look at such attire.

Men's Style
Men's Style

Author: Russell Smith

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1551991896

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Men’s Style is a personal and knowledgeable compendium of tasteful advice for the thinking man on how to dress and shop for clothes in a world of conflicting fashion imperatives. This sophisticated and witty book by the popular Globe and Mail columnist combines nuggets of history and the sociology of masculine attire with a practical and supremely useful guide to achieving an elegant and affordable wardrobe for work and play. In chapters and amusing sidebars on shoes, suits, shirts and ties, formal and casual wear, underwear and swimsuits, cufflinks and watches, coats, hats, and scarves, Russell Smith steers a confident course between the hazards of blandness and vulgarity to articulate a philosophy of dress that can take you anywhere. He tells you what the rules are for looking the part at the office, a formal function, or the hippest party, and when you can toss those rules aside. Men’s Style is supplemented throughout with fifty black-and-white illustrations and diagrams by illustrator Edwin Fotheringham.

Historic Costumes and How to Make Them
Historic Costumes and How to Make Them

Author: Mary Fernald

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0486449068

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Practical, informative guidebook shows how to create everything from short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800s. 81 illustrations.

Patterns of Fashion
Patterns of Fashion

Author: Janet Arnold

Publisher: MacMillan

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780333570821

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No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era. Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume
Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume

Author: Elizabeth Friendship

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1408149311

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Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practical guide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by men between the 16th and 19th centuries. Easy-to-follow instructions explain how to cut patterns for 'average' and individual measurements - with expert advice on how to adapt patterns to fit men of all shapes and sizes. Introductions to each section describe the major developments in men's dress - revealing how garments evolved - and patterns for period garments for which there are no actual examples are based on contemporary paintings. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of diagrams, this is a much-awaited and valuable addition to the library of costume-makers in all fields. Features a new system of drafting patterns for men's period costume. Includes patterns for the most important non-fashionable garments (worn from the 16th to the 19th centuries) plus clothes in vogue from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 18th centuries. Illustrated with hundreds of diagrams accompanied by step-by-step instructions for period garments, plus a few versatile theatrical designs.