Corsets and Crinolines
Corsets and Crinolines

Author: Norah Waugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1135874026

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Corsets and Crinolines is a study of the changing shapes of women's dress and how these were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whale-bone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Added are contemporary tailors and dressmakers accounts, illustrations, index, a glossary of terms and materials, appendices on the repair and manufacture of corsets and crinolines.

English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century

Author: C. Willett Cunnington

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0486319636

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Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, footwear, etc. Based on contemporary sources. Indispensable for costume and fashion students. Bibliography.