Costume books – Fashion Through Herstory

Overload on beautiful Books

Published on January 16, 2015 by fashionthrougherstoryLeave a comment

The days after Christmas I treated myself to some costuming books.

And today they arrived!
Yay!
10,5 kg of costuming happiness!

From left to right:

In Fine Style – the Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion
by Anna Reynolds
I just found this book this winter and I don’t regret for a second my impulse to get it.
Its a real candy book with lots and lots of gorgeous photos of existing garments and paintings with lovely close-ups of details.

Fashion – a History from 18th century to 20th century (part 2 1900s to 2000s)
by Kyoto Institute of Fashion. This book series is classic for a reason. The beautiful pictures and the sheer size of the volumes are all reason you need to love it.

Fashion – a History from 18th century to 20th century (part 1 1700s to 1900s)
by Kyoto Institute of Fashion.

If you ever searched the internet for costume inspiration, you’r sure to have encountered several of the pics in this book. They are simply breath taking, and the book is a real treasure to study closely or to just flip through for inspiration.

The Victorian Tailor – Techniques and pattern
by Jason Maclochlainn
I’ve heard it said that if you only need one book about historic/Victorian tailoring, it is this one.
I can’t wait to really get in dept into this book, and hopes to be able to try some of the techniques in the near future.

The queens servants – Gentlewomen’s dress at the accession of Henry VIII
by Caroline Johnson
Since I love “The Tudor Tailor” I expect this close-up on women’s servants to be great.
So far I’ve seen some interesting dress styles and lots of information about cut and colors.

Elizabethan Costume – Design and Construction
by Helen Qizhi Huang, Kelsey Hunt and Emily Hoem

Considering I own and love the other three books in this costume series, I’m not that thrilled.
There seems to be some interesting stuff about construction and fabrics, but at a first gimps I’d expected more. Not to say that it won’t grow on me later on.

Now you might excuse me while I disappear in to theses goodies for about a month….

New Costuming books

Published on July 15, 2014 by fashionthrougherstory1 Comment

As you might now by now, I’m a real sucker for costuming and fashion books. So when I recently had some money to spair I, spend them on my favourite online book store.

Here are the goddies I got this time.

Dress Design by: Talbot Hughes
A new to me book, that contains lots of quick sketches of historic fashions and some patterns.
At first glance I’m not particulary impressed, but I will have to get into it more in depth to give it a fair review.

Everyday Fashions of the Thirties by: Stella BlumI adore this book series (and own the voulmes on theens and twenties since before), and it did not dissapoint.

Seventheenth-century Womens Dress Pattern part 1. by: Susan North & Jenny Tiramani.I finaly took the plunge and bought this book after at least a year of pining. And it is great – full of pictures, patternsa and detailed skethes of lots of pretty and interesting costume pieces form this (for my part) un-discovered er.

Seventheenth-century Womens Dress Pattern part 2. by: Susan North & Jenny Tiramani.And while I was at it, I bought the second one too.

Reconstruction Era Fashions by: Frances GrimbleAlready owning one of these big beauties I was suprised to discover this book was well past my expectaions. It contained so many and waried patterns and pictures of different items for the 1860s wardrobe.

Historic Costumes in Pictures by: Braun & schneider
Perhaps you have encountered these types of books before – the ones that promises so many gorgeous drawings from all of costume history, but instead uses half of its pages for pre historic, military and national costumes. Don’t get me wrong – I love me some nice national costumes, but then maybe I could have bough a different book. There are however some lovely dawings of both high and low fashions.

Creating Historical Clothes – Pattern Cutting from Tudor to Victorian Times by: Elizabeth FriendshipI own the mens version of this book and totaly adores it. And the womens version are just as great.
It is a pattern drafting book however, and recures you to have some knowledge of pattern drafting before hand.
And that was that.
Lets the summer reading begin…