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Summary: Great details
Review: Does the "DNA" analysis of the clothing so you can get a true picture of each garment as it marched through time. Answers questions I have always wondered. Beautiful pictures.
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Summary: A new classic in costume
Review: Like Janet Arnold's now-classic "Patterns of Fashion" books, this book takes existing museum garments and offers basic scaled patterns for them. It also offers great details about how the garments were original made, tips for using period techniques, and even a few short histories (like the history of pockets). I can't recommend the book highly enough.The patterns are not, however, for beginning sewers; they must be scaled up to size and then made up in muslin for the best accuracy. However, even beginners can enjoy drooling over these wonderful garments (shown in color and b/w) and learning about period construction.
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Summary: Tons-O-Fun for the Costume Entusiast
Review: This book centers on dress from the 1700's, and its coverage of the period is excellent -- Gorgeous photos of original existing gowns, 18th century tailor's schematics (must be scaled), all kinds of info on how clothing was fashioned, worn, supported by corsets and what would become the 19th-century version of the enormous hoopskirts/crinolines (in the 18th century they were called "panniers" "hoops," or "farthingales", which jutted out to the side, not in a circular or elliptical fashion); the photos alone are great inspiration for the serious vintage fasion reproducer. Also includes lots of info on men's fashions, which are often neglected. I LOVE this book! -- YOURS TRULY, THE COSTUME FREAK FROM BOSTON, MA.
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