A Handbook of Costume if the first of its kind and is an invaluable reference book for anyone who is interested in the study of costume, be they amateur, student or teacher. It now appears in paperback for the first time and should inform and entertain a whole new generation of students and costume enthusiasts.

A handbook of costume

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Janet Arnold

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Macmillan

Sewing patterns for English women styles 1660-1860.

Patterns of Fashion

Parenting & Relationships

MACMILLAN/LONDON

Dresses and their construction from 1860 to 1940.\nIncludes line drawings, reproductions of historic magazines and books, descriptions of the fabrics used to make the chosen garments and, finally patterns to make the garments that have been updated to fit the modern silhouette.

A Handbook of Costume

Written and illustrated by Janet Arnold, PATTERNS OF FASHION 1 is dedicated to Englishwomen's dresses and their construction, c. 1660-1860.--This unique book contains drawings and patterns taken from (48) original specimens. Examples include a bodice in ivory silk with two details from 1660-1665, a riding habit from 1730-1750, and a wedding dress in ivory silk from 1827-1829.--Additionally, Ms. Arnold brings the following:·Pattern cutting and dressmaking, c 1660-1860. A selection of extracts from contemporary sources.·A pictorial outline of Englishwomen's costume, c.1660-1860.·Drawings and patterns of Englishwomen's dresses, c. 1660-1860 taken from original specimens with details showing their construction·Additional material on the cut of early eighteenth-century dresses·Metric conversions·Using the patterns for full-scale work·List of selected books

Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860

Arts & Photography

Drama Publishers

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. 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. There are 178 black and white illustrations and photographs, 86 patterns and detail, 433 color photographs and well as the patterns and details.

Patterns of Fashion 4 : The cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women C. 1540-1660

Quite Specific Media Group, Limited

Patterns of Fashion 5: The content, cut, construction and context of bodies, stays, hoops and rumps c.1595-1795

Jenny Tiramani

Luca Costigliolo

Sébastien Passot

Armelle Lucas

Johannes Pietsch

The School of Historical Dress

Patterns of Fashion 6: The Content, Cut, Construction and Context of Women’s European Dress c. 1695-1795

Claire Thornton

Melanie Braun

School of Historical Dress, The

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