Women's Fashions of the Early 1900s

Women's Fashions of the Early 1900s

Author: National Cloak & Suit Co

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Rare catalog of mail-order fashions documents women's and children's clothing styles shortly after the turn of the century. Captions offer full descriptions, prices. Invaluable resource for fashion and costume historians. Approximately 725 illustrations.


Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs

Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs

Author: Lisa Hodgkins

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781350249882

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"In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the century, Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs presents iconic garments, using sources from the period, to provide commentary and detailed description of the styles of the time. Previously unpublished vintage photographs show women across the social spectrum wearing items such as the Garibaldi shirt, the cuirass bodice, the Mother Hubbard, bicycle bloomers, and much more. Names, dates and functions of garments are examined in detail, and ties are established between social and historical contexts and the evolution of clothing styles. This illustrated book is for readers who want to identify and understand specific clothing items as well as gain insight into the mind-set of fashionable women from Victorian-era America. Dress history scholars, costume designers, curators of costume collections, social and cultural historians and those who appreciate vintage photographs can learn about elements of late 19th century women's dress and thereby develop an understanding of what was fashionable, and why."--


Victorian & Edwardian Fashions for Women, 1840 to 1919

Victorian & Edwardian Fashions for Women, 1840 to 1919

Author: Kristina Harris

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Guide to the designs and fabrics of 19th and early 20th century women's fashions. Evaluates the silhouette, construction, style, and details of fashionable garments and offers advice for maintaining, laundering and repairing them


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.


Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919

Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919

Author: Kathleen Mabel La Barre

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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"This publication gives an overview of the characteristic of various items of women's apparel from 1910 through 1919. This is not a price guide but rather a reference to help you date your own vintage apparel and research the clothes of the end of the Edwardian era to the beginning the of the nineteen-twenties"--Page 4 of cover.


Fashion Victims

Fashion Victims

Author: Alison Matthews David

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1472577744

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From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns. Fabulously gory and gruesome, Fashion Victims takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the lethal history of women's, men's and children's dress, in myth and reality. Drawing upon surviving fashion objects and numerous visual and textual sources, encompassing louse-ridden military uniforms, accounts of the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde's half-sisters and dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental strangulation by entangled scarf; the book explores how garments have tormented those who made and wore them, and harmed animals and the environment in the process. Vividly chronicling evidence from Greek mythology to the present day, Matthews David puts everyday apparel under the microscope and unpicks the dark side of fashion. Fashion Victims is lavishly illustrated with over 125 images and is a remarkable resource for everyone from scholars and students to fashion enthusiasts.


Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs

Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs

Author: Lisa Hodgkins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1350249858

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In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the century, Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs presents iconic garments, using sources from the period, to provide commentary and detailed description of the styles of the time. Previously unpublished vintage photographs show women across the social spectrum wearing items such as the Garibaldi shirt, the cuirass bodice, the Mother Hubbard, bicycle bloomers, and much more. Names, dates and functions of garments are examined in detail, and ties are established between social and historical contexts and the evolution of clothing styles. This illustrated book is for readers who want to identify and understand specific clothing items as well as gain insight into the mind-set of fashionable women from Victorian-era America. Dress history scholars, costume designers, curators of costume collections, social and cultural historians and those who appreciate vintage photographs can learn about elements of late 19th century women's dress and thereby develop an understanding of what was fashionable, and why.


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.