Offers a collection of designs and patterns for women's dresses from the nineteenth century, with comments on the changes in fashion through the years and sewing and fabric hunts for costume makers

Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1800-1909

Hunnisett, Jean

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Drama Pub

When the bold young woman, Jane Wadsworth, aids in the building and testing of her father's ships during the Revolutionary War, she becomes caught up in a deadly mutiny

Shoes

Arts & Photography

Swann, June

Fashion

This is a concise history of gloves from 1600 to the present day. The first part describes the way gloves were made and the book contains some examples which have never been photographed before. The books in this series are aimed at designers, restorers, collectors, and art historians.

Gloves (The Costume Accessories Series)

Cumming, Valerie

Humor & Entertainment

The history and evolution of women's underwear since 3000 B.C. is viewed in light of fashion trends, the social and cultural milieu of each era, and such developments as the zipper, elastic, rubber, rayon, nylon, and lycra

Dress and Undress: A History of Women's Underwear

Politics & Social Sciences

Ewing, Elizabeth

Social Sciences

Explores the evolution of handbags and purses since 1600, examining styles designed for and adopted by men as well as women and contrasting purses used for day and evening

Bags and Purses

Foster, Vanda

Covering the period from 1600 to the present day, this book illustrates a wide variety of hats. The treatment is chronological, with men's and women's hats dealt with for each century in turn. For men's hats, the author shows the importance not only of the form and decoration, but also the expressive possibilities of the way they are worn. Hats for both men and women were profoundly affected in all countries by changes in political, artistic and social life, and the author charts this process with the aid of contemporary portraits in fascinating detail. They are also considered in conjunction with hairdressing styles which often influenced the shape and size of the hat. The photographs show a great variety of examples from many sources and from all periods, many of them never photographed before. This book is part of an illustrated series on costume aimed at the designer, restorer, collector, student and art historian. Fiona clark is also the author of "William Morris, Wallpapers and Chintzes".

Hats

Clark, Fiona

This reference work is packed with hairdressing and wigmaking terms. Details of different kinds of wigs, beards, moustaches and hairstyles and also the implements and processes of hairdressing, with their history, descriptions and meanings from all periods are drawn from both the author's experience as a practising hairdresser and wigmaker and original manusripts and printed sources. The author lists and describes not only the literary, vernacular and technical craft words of the 20th century, but also archaic, dialectical and obsolete words with their local uses and specialized meanings which are not readily available elsewhere. This dictionary will provide source material for those studying costume history and fashion, for artists, designers, collectors and the many people involved in the world of theatre and cinema, as well as for the professional hairdresser.

An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing & Wigmaking

Cox, James Stevens

Reference

This book traces the history of fans from biblical times to the present day.  Fans are made from a wide variety of materials and in numerous different shapes and sizes, and they come from many diverse cultures.  Originating as an everyday functional object, the fan rapidly acquired ceremonial and social significance, becoming the utilitarian sceptre of kings, the subject of conversation for blue-stockings of the seventeenth century, the toy of frivolous ladies, the vehicle of revolutionary messages, the sentimental possession of the Victorians, the mirror of the Belle Epoque, and an advertising gimmick.  Above all, fans are hand-crafted objects and therefore no two are identical, which makes recording and classsifying them an absorbing and fascinating historical adventure.

Fans (Costume Accessory Series)

Alexander, Helene

Presents 5000 years of jewellery from around the world.

Jewellery (Costume Accessories Series)

SCARISBRICK, Diana

Practical Guide to care and preservation of antique and vintage textiles

Care and Preservation of Textiles

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Finch, Karen

Putnam, Greta

Crafts & Hobbies

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