I took most of the following info out of the entries I maintain to put
for book and magazine article bibliographies, etc.
* Fukai, Akiko, Tamami Suoh, Miki Iwagami, Reiko Koga, and Rii Nie. The
Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute: Fashion: A History from the
18th to the 20th Century. Köln: Taschen, 2002.
This obviously does not focus entirely on the 18th century. But it does
include all or most of the pictures of a couple of books the Kyoto
Costume Institute DID publish on the 18th century, and which I think are
now out of print. I think there are several very similar editions of
this book--in one volume, in two volumes, hardcover, paperback. etc. I
don't recall that there's a ton of difference between them, however.
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An Elegant Art: Fashion and Fantasy
in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983.
An exhibit catalog with informative essays on fashionable and fancy
dress, fabrics, decoration, and deportment. Men's and women's clothes.
* Baumgarten, Linda and John Watson. Costume Close-Up: Clothing
Construction and Pattern 1750-1790. New York: Costume & Fashion Press, 1999.
Scale drafts, photos, and detailed descriptions of the original
construction and decoration of 28 women’s and men’s garments.
Al of the above are large, illustrated, in color, and otherwise
eminently suitable as gifts.
There's also an in-print museum catalog, _18th-Century Costume in the
National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside_, which I haven't entered
in the file. It's still somewhere in a pile on my sewing room floor. I
recall it as a rather small but nice museum catalog.
There's a nice little set of volumes of 18th-century and 19th-century
accessories from the Snowshill museum--try searching on Snowshill on
Amazon. Again, they are on a floor somewhere and not entered in my
bibliography file.
Hope this helps.
Fran
Lavolta Press Book on Historic Costuming
http://www.lavoltapress.com
julian wilson wrote:
Gentles of the List,
I have a young grand-daughter who has become deeply interested in 18th C high-status
European fashions after seeing the most-recently-mdae "Cinderella" film.
As a Christmas Present, my Lady and I would like to give our grand-daughter a couple of
profusely-illustrated reference books about 18th C. Fashions as "starters" for
a personal reference library for her new interest.
18th C. European fashions are not a subject I have had any reason to
research - [though I DO know the military history in considerable depth], and I
have no reference Base to help me.
Would Members of the List be good enough to make Book suggestions to help us
pruchase a couple of sutiable reference books for our grand-daughter?
Julian Wilson,
dwelling in "old" Jersey,
[aka in the SCA as Matthew Baker, a veteran soldier of the late 15thC.].
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