Dover Fashion and Costumes
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Costume Through the Ages: Over 1400 Illustrations
$13.95 Read moreFew books of costume design will prove more useful to artists, students, stage designers, and scholars than this volume. Presenting detailed drawings in a continuous chronological format, it provides
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Klepper, Erhard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0486407225
- Language: English
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59 Authentic Turn-Of-The-Century Fashion Patterns
$19.95 Add to cartThe dressmaker’s patterns for the more than 50 different garments included in this volume first appeared in the 1890s in issues of the quarterly The Voice of Fashion. Most of the patterns are for styl… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Harris, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 10 1995
- ISBN10: 0486283577
- Language: English
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The Keystone Jacket and Dress Cutter: An 1895 Guide to Women’s Tailoring
$10.95 Read moreWith opulent fashions the ultimate in style, women of the late Victorian era wore a great deal of silks and satins. Daring combinations of bright colors were in. So were large hats, profusely trimmed…. [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Hecklinger, Chas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451054
- Language: English
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Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It
$14.95 Add to cartClear-cut and accurate in its guidance, this volume depicts medieval clothes and accessories not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Unlike conventio… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Hartley, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0486429857
- Language: English
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Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
$19.95 Add to cartSince the invention of photography there has not been a history of fashion completely illustrated by photographs — until this one. Photography historian Alison Gernsheim first studied Victorian and E… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Gernsheim, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0486242056
- Language: English
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60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns
$14.95 Add to cartAssembled from issues of a popular 19th-century periodical, these patterns include dresses, pants, jackets, and other apparel for women and children, plus suggestions for employing modern tools and te… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0486461769
- Language: English
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Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques
$16.95 Add to cartAt the turn of the century, ladies of privilege could easily afford their own dressmakers, and even middle-class housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women did their own s… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Harris, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0486404854
- Language: English
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Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady’s Wardrobe
$19.95 Add to cartImported custom-made clothes were usually beyond the financial reach of the average middle-class American woman of a century ago; and store-bought garments were often of inferior quality. This left ma… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Harris, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0486407217
- Language: English
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Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Costume
$14.95 Add to cartIncluded are elaborate examples of Aegean costume, Doric and Ionic styles of dress for women, Greek and Roman armor, graceful and intricately arranged Roman togas, more. Ornate vestments of the Easter
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Houston, Mary G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20, 2011
- ISBN10: 0486426106
- Language: English
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Historic Costumes and How to Make Them
$12.95 Add to cartThis practical and informative guidebook is a “must-have” for anyone planning to create accurate period costumes for theatrical productions and historical reenactments. From short tunics worn by Saxon… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Fernald, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0486449068
- Language: English
