Fashion in Detail

Fashion in Detail
Author: Avril Hart
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This gallery of exquisite photographs, with line-drawings showing the construction of the complete garment, and a text that sets each in the context of its time, is a visual feast for all fashion lovers, and an essential resource for curators, collectors, students, and designers.

Historical Fashion in Detail

Historical Fashion in Detail
Author: Avril Hart
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 9780810966086

Frequently reprinted, occasionally under the title Fashion in detail.

Nineteenth-century Fashion in Detail

Nineteenth-century Fashion in Detail
Author: Lucy Johnston
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A glorious companion volume to Historical Fashion in Detail- The 17th and 18th Centuries and Modern Fashion in Detail, this book captures the opulence and variety of nineteenth-century fashion through an authoritative text, exquisite colour photography and line drawings of the complete garments. From the delicate embroidery on neoclassical gowns to the vibrant colours of crinolines and the elegant tailoring of men's coats, the richness of the period is revealed in breathtaking detail. The garments showcased here, drawn from the V&A Museum's world famous collection, were at the height of fashion in their time. They display a remarkable range of colours, materials and construction details- from the intricate boning on women's corsets to the patterned silk of men's waistcoats. Seen in close-up for the first time and further illuminated by detailed commentary and line drawings that show the ingenuity of the underlying construction, these carefully chosen garments illustrate some of the major themes of nineteenth-century dress.

Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century

Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Madeleine Delpierre
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300071283

Examines European dress as it evolved in 18th-century France. The text looks at French dress first from an aesthetic point of view, describing in detail fashionable and everyday clothes. It then examines the social and economic factors affecting fashion and compares styles in major European cities.

Men's 17th & 18th Century Costume, Cut & Fashion

Men's 17th & 18th Century Costume, Cut & Fashion
Author: Ronald I. Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN:

"This is a comprehensive guide to understanding and creating men's costumes and fashions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As well as being historically accurate, the author's patterns have been prepared so that they fit the modern male figure and adapted so that they can be readily constructed using today's fabrics and sewing techniques."--Back cover.

Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Chloe Wigston Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107035007

This book charts the novel's vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages.

Shaping Femininity

Shaping Femininity
Author: Sarah Bendall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350164135

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanced approach that incorporates a stunning array of visual and written sources and drawing on transdisciplinary methodologies, Shaping Femininity explores the relationship between material culture and femininity by examining the lives of a wide range of women, from queens to courtiers, farmer's wives and servants, uncovering their lost voices and experiences. It reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history, arguing that these objects of material culture began to shape and define changing notions of the feminine bodily ideal, social status, sexuality and modesty in the early modern period, influencing enduring Western notions of femininity. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale exploration of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of women's foundation garments in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. It offers a fascinating insight into dress and fashion in the early modern period, and offers much of value to all those interested in the history of early modern women and gender, material culture and consumption, and the history of the body, as well as curators and reconstructors.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Author: Avril Hart
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781851775675

Examines with superb photography , the seams, decorative stitching, drapery, corseting, slashing and stamping that characterise fashion of this era.

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons
Author: Harold Koda
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2006
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 0300107145

An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France