Full name: The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930

Author: Nora Waugh Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780878300266 0878300260

Each period in the history of costume has produced its own characteristic line and silhouette, derived from a cut and construction which varies considerably from age to age. Here are patterns taken from actual dresses, many of them rare museum specimens, illustrated by sketches of the dresses. There are notes on the production of women's dress, with references to early technical books and journals, together with diagrams from some of them. Numerous illustrations show the dresses as worn complete with their hairstyles, jewelry, decorations and accessories. Similar books: The Cut of Men's Clothes by Nora Waugh Costume in Detail by Nancy Bradfield Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Avril Hart Corsets and Crinolines by Nora Waugh Costume Close Up by Linda Baumgarten The Art of Dress by Jane Ashelford Fitting & Proper by Sharon Ann Burnston What Clothes Reveal by Linda Baumgarten Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg by Linda Baumgarten