Presents a practical guide and detailed patterns for creating accurate period costumes from the fifth through nineteenth centuries for theatrical productions or reenactments.
An illustrated history of costume and dress from around the world, covering topics from the headgear of the ancient Greeks to twenty-first-century footwear with more than 650 alphabetically-arranged entries, and providing information on designs, materials, accessories, and manufacturing techniques.
Presents reproductions of over three hundred line drawings and fourteen magazine covers created by Russian-born artist Erte for "Harper's Bazar" in the early twentieth century.
Contains over fourteen hundred fifty historic costumes depicting fashions from the ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Byzantine periods to the end of the nineteenth century covering a wide variety of people and social classes from noblemen to peasants.
Contains over three hundred copyright-free illustrations, with descriptions, that document the types of clothing worn by English people--both nobility and laboring classes--from the tenth century through the 1500s.
1,800 illustrations from ancient times to the early twentieth century
Gorsline, Douglas W.
1994
An unabridged republication of a 1951 text which features over 1,800 black-and-white drawings of wearing apparel, covering a period of five thousand years, from ancient Egypt through the 1940s.
A photographic survey of Victorian and Edwardian fashion, from 1840 through the early 1900s, with essays and illustrations that provide information on men's and women's costumes, accessories, coiffures, moustaches, and other manifestations of style.
More than two hundred illustrations help depict and describe more than two hundred garments worn in Western Europe from the thirteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
