Hello,
This is just an email giving some additional information on Fashion History
books.
Sorry for the delay answering your request but health problems do not allow
me to do things as fast as I would like.
Yes, very few books make a good reference to lace, but there are some
devoted only to that which I am not going to mention. But going through my
books in English about this subject: Fashion history, besides the ones
already mentioned I found a couple that may interest you:
- Understanding Fashion History by Valerie Cumming
- Survey of Historic Costume by Phyllis Tortora and Keith Eubank
and for American clothing:
- What Clothes reveal, the language of clothing in colonial and federal
America by Linda Baumgarten.
Then I find very useful the book by Janet Arnold:
- A Handbook of Costume.
Going a bit further into the fashion history I would also suggest:
- Fashion in the Middle Ages by Margaret Scott
- Tudor Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris
- Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward
- The Art of Dress, Fashion in England and France 1750-1820 by Aileen
Ribeiro
- Historican Fashion in Detail, the 17th & 18th centuries by Avril Hart and
Susan North
- English Women's Clothing in the 19th century by Willett Cunnington
- Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900 by Linda Setnik
- Edwardian Fashion by Daniel Milford-Cottam
I find extraordinary helpful the 4 booklets by Janet Arnold, *Patterns of
Fashion*, specially the last one (4) with additional material by Jenny
Tiramani and Santina M. Levey. This one has a portion that deals with lace.
As I can see many of the arachne-members come from English speaking
countries, I only picked up those publications written in English and some
of them making special reference to English Fashion. I have some more but I
think these are enough for the moment. If you happen to need further info
about a precise age just let me know and I will try to help you.
Regards from a wet and windy Spain
Maria Greil
a German lace maker living in Madrid
2018-03-06 23:06 GMT+01:00 DevonThein :
> Loreleiâs query about fashion history books is a good question. The
problem
> encountered by the lace historian is to try to figure out what all these
> pieces of lace in museum collections started out trying to be. It is very
> vexing, and I wish I understood the topic better.
> I have found the books by Aileen Ribeiro to be very helpful.
>
> The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820
> Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England
> Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789
>
> A problem with a lot of books is that they cover such a long period that
> they
> donât spend much time on any particular era, and thus any time spent on
> lace
> is infinitesimal. That said, I find on my shelf:
> Four Hundred Years of Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum,
> The Visual History of Costume, Ribeiro & Coming,
> Accessories of Dress, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Lester & Oerke
> The Art of Dress, Clothes and Society, 1500-1914, Jane Ashelford
> Victorian and Edwardian Fashion, A photographic survey, Alison Gernstein
>
> This last book is a Dover book that I picked up at Craftsman Farm in
> Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, the workshop of Gustav Stickley, a designer for
> the
> Arts and Crafts movement. This book has the merit that pictures donât
lie.
> Any book that is actually written about fashion quite likely leaves out the
> lace as unimportant. But photographs of the late 19th and early 20th
> century
> can show lace on them. It is mostly these strange shaped accessories that
> one
> does find in museum collections, and antique shows, sometimes even
> composed of
> older lace. So, my only fault with this book is that I wish there were more
> photographs and even less writing.
>
> Devon
>
>
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