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Historic Costume CD-ROM and Book: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance (Dover Pictorial Archives) Features
Historic Costume CD-ROM and Book: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance (Dover Pictorial Archives) Overview
Invaluable collection ranges from primitive wraps of the Ice Age to elegant robes and tunics worn during the Italian Renaissance. 200 permission-free illustrations depict ancient Egyptian royalty in diaphanous gowns; Roman senators in traditional draped attire; Viking and Celtic warriors in simple garb; Tudor monarchs in fur-trimmed robes; footwear, headgear, hairdos, and many other accessories. Includes 16-page section with background information on historical periods and details of each outfit.
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Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Costume & Textiles) Features
Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Costume & Textiles) Overview
For this historically accurate sampling of authentic 1930’s fashion, Stella Blum, former Curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, selected for reproduction 133 representative pages from rare Sears catalogs of the period (1933-1939). Hundreds of illustrations record what men, women, and children were actually wearing in the ’30s when, as a copy line from the fall 1930 catalog proclaimed, “Thrift is the spirit of the day. Reckless spending is a thing of the past”.
Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Costume & Textiles) Review
Showing the clothing offered by one of the biggest retailers in the US, this is a study in clothing for the era. It is focused primarily for the women’s wear but the men’s wear pages are worth their weight in gold for the vintage clothing afficionado. This type of book is helpful for collectors, re-enactors, film costuming and plays. It helps get the “look” of the period right. Style in this era was found in everyday life for middle America in the way people dressed and is a stunning contrast to today’s sloth and slovenly life-styles.
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The Costume Book: The Non-Professional’s Guide to Professional Results (Schiffer Book for Designers) Review
Mary Burke Morris’ The Costume Book requires intermediate to advanced sewing skills and a prior interest in costume creation, but any working with theater or dance productions who regularly sew such costumes will find it an invaluable reference. Chapters come packed with photos and line drawings, overviews of basic design principles, and instructions which quickly lend to production efforts.
The Costume Book: The Non-Professional’s Guide to Professional Results (Schiffer Book for Designers) Overview
This beautiful new book guides readers with intermediate to advanced level sewing skills toward the successful creation of costumes for theatrical or dance performances, and for re-enactments and interactive fiction. Nearly 250 beautiful color photographs and detailed line drawings of many types of costumes, along with solid design principles, provide a wealth of easy to understand information and how-to instructions. Practical tips concerning theatrical production teams, lines of authority, budgets, scheduling, and post-production storage of costumes are included. An annotated bibliography and a resource guide are both useful references.
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The Costume Book: The Non-Professional’s Guide to Professional Results (Schiffer Book for Designers) Review
Mary Burke Morris’ The Costume Book requires intermediate to advanced sewing skills and a prior interest in costume creation, but any working with theater or dance productions who regularly sew such costumes will find it an invaluable reference. Chapters come packed with photos and line drawings, overviews of basic design principles, and instructions which quickly lend to production efforts.
The Costume Book: The Non-Professional’s Guide to Professional Results (Schiffer Book for Designers) Overview
This beautiful new book guides readers with intermediate to advanced level sewing skills toward the successful creation of costumes for theatrical or dance performances, and for re-enactments and interactive fiction. Nearly 250 beautiful color photographs and detailed line drawings of many types of costumes, along with solid design principles, provide a wealth of easy to understand information and how-to instructions. Practical tips concerning theatrical production teams, lines of authority, budgets, scheduling, and post-production storage of costumes are included. An annotated bibliography and a resource guide are both useful references.
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InDognito: A Book of Canines in Costume Review
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Karen a few years..She is a amazing
Photographer not only of pets, but fashion, events and life as she
comes across it..
She has put a terrific book together of many different breeds of
wonderful dogs in Costumes..You will enjoy each and every
page…If you want to bring a smile to your face or the
face of a friend, I recommend buying this book..
Blanche NYC
InDognito: A Book of Canines in Costume Overview
Hilarious, charming, and inventive, INDOGNITO is Karen Ngo’s visual treat for today’s breed of dog lovers. A whimsical collection of stylishly photographed dog portraits, it affectionately embraces the quirky spirit of the primped pooch. Including humorous quotations, this book is sure to delight and inspire dog-lovers of every age! (2008)
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The Little Corset Book: A Workbook on Period Underwear (Little Costume Workbooks) Review
This teeny volume shows b/w hand-drawn construction diagrams for reproduction corsets from the eras of 1700, 1750, 1860, and 1890, plus basic chemise and basic drawers. Drawings are very clear, and include some suggestions on fabric selection and decoration. Text covers step-by-step construction, fabric/notion requirements, and a chart to assist in getting the right number of the right size of corset bones. Anyone who has attempted a corset without instructions has probably ended the attempt in frustration, but this inexpensive guide and a friend to help with fitting, that will change. No historical info is included, this volume is about simplified construction and it hits the mark. Not for beginning sewers, but that’s because of the project nature, not the book. The only improvement I’d like to see would be more detailed guidelines to determining correct dimensions of cut pieces, maybe even fullsize pieces. But the information contained would be worth twice the full price. Certainly cheaper than a single period pattern for a corset, regardless of your source, and those are a gamble with regard to adequate instructions. This compact book is ideal for amateur costumers, especially Ren Faire or re-enactment folks. Professional costumers will probably not find any new information here, but it’s really a gem.
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Eyewitness: Costume Review
This is a good, easy reference book. I highly recommend it for grade school children who may not be up to the task of reading long explanations about historical costumes. It covers a lot of time–from Adam and Eve to the 1990’s.
Eyewitness: Costume Overview
Discover the history of costumes — from ancient loincloths and Roman togas to bustles, bonnets and haute couture.
Here is an original and exciting look at the colorful history of clothes and fashion. Superb, full-color photographs of original clothes, accessories and ornaments worn by real-life men, women and children offer a unique and revealing “eyewitness” view of the history of costume. See brooches and hairpins worn by Roman women, the opulence of Renaissance clothes and jewels, 17th-century fans, gloves, and bags, a hippie father and son, Queen Victoria’s stockings, and a Viking shoe. Learn what false fat bellies were stuffed with, how Romans folded their togas, how the discovery of the New World changed European costume, and when the starch was first used to stiffen fabric. Discover how textiles have affected fashion, when men wore stockings, what a farthingale was used for, what the first bathing suits looked like, why women used to wear corsets, and much, much more.
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