Textile Costume category: 195 books
by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial...
Fancy Dresses Described
A Glossary of Victorian Costumes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to hundreds...
Fashion and Museums
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice.
Chapters explore the role of fashion...
Planet Cosplay
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice. Planet Cosplay comprises chapters from scholars who are widely published in this field, examining the subject of cosplay from sources...
by Thomas Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
From headdresses to sandals, from warrior's armor to priestess's robes, the authentic costumes of people from all walks of life in the Roman and Greek civilizations are here pictured comprehensively and clearly. Three hundred finely drawn, detailed engravings (containing over 700 illustrations) show...
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
A Dress History of Queen Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving...
Regency Women's Dress
Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen. Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning...
by Judy Bentinck
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Designing and Making Hats and Headpieces is an inspiring instructional guide to the art of millinery. It explains how to go about designing a hat, what equipment and materials you will need, and the techniques required to get started. It divides the projects into three types of hat - blocked, headpieces...
Tessere la speranza
Le Preziose Vesti dalle Madonne Addolorate del Lazio a Santa María de la Esperanza Macarena di Siviglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Catalogo della Mostra aperta a Sora (FR), Museo Civico della “Media Valle del Liri” dal 15 giugno al 22 luglio 2017 L'esposizione è incentrata su un aspetto molto peculiare del culto della Madonna: la vestizione dei simulacri della Vergine, densa di significati simbolici, di ritualità e di segretezza....
by Camille Bonnard, Charles Blanc, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Extrait : "Le costume suivant est encore tiré de cet inépuisable manuscrit de Tite-Live conservé dans la bibliothèque Ambrosienne, à Milan, duquel j'ai emprunté un si grand nombre de détails précieux sur les mœurs et les costumes italiens du XIVe siècle. Ce noble Italien est vêtu d'un...
Modeskaber
Historien om Margit Brandt
Language: Danish
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Op gennem 60'erne og 70'erne satte især én kvinde sit præg på dansk mode og livsstil for en hel generation: Margit Brandt.
MODESKABER fortæller den utrolige historie om den skrædderuddannede danske kvinde, der kom i lære hos Pierre Balmain og Louis Fraud i Paris og vendte hjem og skabte...
Dreaming of Dior
Every Dress Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Charlotte Smith had already had more than her fair share of fabulous dresses and adventures. She lived life to the fullest in London, Paris and New York before falling in love with Australia and making it her home.
Then she discovered that she had inherited a priceless vintage clothing collection...
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac
The Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
One of America's most ingenious and creative knitters presents 23 patterns in this beloved classic of knitting lore. Elizabeth Zimmermann's bestselling guide includes Aran sweaters, mittens, socks, and patterns for other items that can be followed by intermediate to advanced knitters or adapted into...
Cheap Chic
Hundreds of Money-Saving Hints to Create Your Own Great Look
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“I think it’s terrific.” –Diane von Furstenberg, of the original edition of Cheap Chic
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Beloved by designers and style mavens alike, the LBD of fashion guides—with a new foreword by Tim Gunn—is back and more in fashion than ever.
Before there were street-style blogs and ‘zines,...