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  Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660 - 1860

  by Janet Arnold

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  Patterns of Fashion 2

  Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction c.1860-1940

  by Janet Arnold

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  Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620

  by Janet Arnold

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  Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries

  by Avril Hart, Susan North

  This volume offers the opportunity to see fragile clothes in detail. Perfection is in the detail: decorative seams, exquisite stitching, knife sharp pleats and voluptuous drapery feature alongside more usual techniques such as stamping, pinking and slashing. Many of the skills displayed have been lost to the modern world: such labour-intensive handwork is no longer done and these effects cannot be replicated by... (more)
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  Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars

  by Trisha Biggar

  While the Star Wars saga is famous for its elaborate sets and for revolutionary visual effects, it also features some of the most unique and ornate costumes in modern film. In this exquisite volume, the intricate and beautiful fashions that have appeared in all six Star Wars films are on display-from military gear to royal gowns and the iconic garbs of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader. Every costume is... (more)
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  20000 Years of Fashion

  by Franc?ois Boucher

  This scholarly, absorbing history of dress, an updated edition of a 1966 reference work, ranges from prehistoric costume through present fashion. From antiquity to the 14th century, costume was generally long, loose and draped, not nationalistic in character, and reflected magical and religious functions. From the 14th century, when costume became short and fitted, to the 19th century, clothing acquired personal... (more)
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  Tudor Costume and Fashion

  by Herbert Norris

  Monumental, profusely illustrated study of English fashions from 1485 to 1603. Highly authentic, detailed survey exuberantly describes clothing, headgear, hairstyles, jewelry, collars, footwear, more worn by royalty, nobility, middle and lower classes. Most illustrations from contemporary sources. Invaluable resource for fashion historians and costume designers and irresistible to anyone fascinated by the... (more)
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  The Dress Lodger

  by Sheri Holman

  The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary --"Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student"--casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a... (more)
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  Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd: The inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes prepared in July 1600, edited from Stowe MS 557 in the British Library, MS LR 2/121 in the Public Record Office, London, and MS V.b.72 in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

  by Janet Arnold

  The vast wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth I is legendary: in her own time some of the richly embroidered gowns were displayed with other treasures to dazzle the eyes of foreign visitors to the Tower of London. The quantity of clothes recorded in the inventories taken in 1600 would seem to suggest sheer vanity, but a survey of work carried out in the Wardrobe of Robes throughout the reign reveals a different picture. It... (more)
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  Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800

  by Jean Hunnisett

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  Costume in Details

  by Nancy Margetts Bradfield

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  The Costume Technician's Handbook 3/e

  by Rosemary Ingham

  Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey draw upon their many years of hands-on experience in costume design and technology to provide the most complete guide to developing costumes that are personally distinctive and artistically expressive.
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  A Handbook of Costume

  by Janet Arnold

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  Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women C. 1540-1660 (Patterns of Fashion) (Patterns of Fashion)

  by Janet Arnold

  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... (more)
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  The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957

  by Claire Wilcox

  In 1947, Christian Dior’s “New Look” was greeted with both shock and delight, making headlines around the world. Accompanying the exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2007, this lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, the decade Dior hailed as fashion’s “golden age.” The “New Look” symbolized a new femininity. The full skirts and hourglass... (more)
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  The Magic Garment: Principles of Costume Design

  by Rebecca Cunningham

  Comprehensive, clear, well-illustrated, and concise! This outstanding volume provides a systematic overview of the process of costume design for the stage, presenting beginning designers with the fundamentals upon which to build their costume skills. From styles of visual presentation and the use of fabric and materials, to developing skills in research, conceptualization, interpretation, and organization of... (more)
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  Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design

  by Deborah Nadoolman Landis

  From the lavish productions of Hollywood's Golden Age through the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on the magical transformations rendered by the costume designer. Whether spectacular or subtle, elaborate or barely there, a movie costume must be more than merely a perfect fit. Each costume speaks a language all its own, communicating mood,... (more)
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  High Fashion in Shakespeare's Time: A Study of the Period Costume With Pull-Up Scenes (History & Costume)

  by Andrew Brownfoot

  Larger-than-life characters abound in the age of Shakespeare; vulgar, boisterous and fiercely individual. This title describes their clothes and combines historical accuracy with the fictional journals of three fashionable people. Pull-up scenes are also illustrated throughout.
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  Costuming from the Hip

  by Dawn Devine Brown, Barry Brown

  Costuming from the Hip is a comprehensive reference for anyone who works with Middle Eastern dancewear. Dancers, costume makers, designers, and historical re-enactors will like the many illustrations, historical patterns, construction techniques, and hundreds of hints and tips. This 120-page book will take you step-by-step through measuring your body, researching your costume, laying out the patterns,... (more)
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  The History of Underclothes

  by C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington

  Fascinating survey of various undergarments worn by the English over six centuries. Well-documented, scholarly presentation enhanced with over 100 period illustrations depicting laced-up bodice of the 12th century, embroidered linen drawers (1500s), hooped petticoat support (c. 1750), footed long drawers (1795), 19th-century bustles, early 19th-century corsets for men, Victorian "bust improvers," much more.