Re: [h-cost] Book review requested - Nineteenth Century Fashion in detail
Nancy Bradfield's _Costume in Detail 1730-1930_ - but she doesn't show photographs, it's all line drawings. The first edition hardback has photos in color. I own the second edition hardback, which has no photos but more costume drawings. Haven't looked in the paperback edition. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- Blank paper is God's way of saying it ain't so easy being God. -- ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Book review requested - Nineteenth Century Fashion in detail
I've just got some bonus money and I'm planning on spending some of it on books. I'm looking for a book that will show me internal construction details of Victorian era clothing preferably using detailed photos. Looking on Amazon I found Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston, so for those who have a copy does it include these sort of details (or it is external decorative details like embroidery or ruching). There are very few books that have internal construction details. The best I've found (besides Janet Arnold's work) is Nancy Bradfield's _Costume in Detail 1730-1930_ - but she doesn't show photographs, it's all line drawings. Another place you could look is Your Wardrobe Unlocked: http://yourwardrobeunlockd.com/ which is a subscription website. There is a series of photographic essays there on the construction of women's clothing circa 1865-ish. Of course, I'm not unbiased about them, as I wrote 'em ;-) The final one covering ball gown bodices will be out next month. I started my vintage collection because I couldn't find detailed construction information already published. *sigh* Ebay is a great source for acquiring your very own Victorian construction example. Best of luck! -sunny ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Book review requested - Nineteenth Century Fashion in detail
Hi everyone, I've just got some bonus money and I'm planning on spending some of it on books. I'm looking for a book that will show me internal construction details of Victorian era clothing preferably using detailed photos. Looking on Amazon I found Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston, so for those who have a copy does it include these sort of details (or it is external decorative details like embroidery or ruching). My final question is Amazon UK has two books listed one that's in print http://tinyurl.com/oobv6x and one that's out of print http://tinyurl.com/oapatu Does anyone know if there are any differences between the editions apart from the cover? Thanks Elizabeth --- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra, Australia http://magpiecostumer.110mb.com/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Book review requested - Nineteenth Century Fashion in detail
On Thursday 07 May 2009 10:29:45 pm Elizabeth Walpole wrote: Hi everyone, I've just got some bonus money and I'm planning on spending some of it on books. I'm looking for a book that will show me internal construction details of Victorian era clothing preferably using detailed photos. Looking on Amazon I found Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston, so for those who have a copy does it include these sort of details (or it is external decorative details like embroidery or ruching). All of the photos are of external details, such as ruching. However, there are no photos of the entire garment (though there are line sketches) and no photos showing construction. -- Cathy Raymond ca...@thyrsus.com All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. --Sean O'Casey ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
