Principles of Correct Dress
Title | Principles of Correct Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Hull Winterburn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Clothing and dress |
ISBN |
Regency Women's Dress
Title | Regency Women's Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Cassidy Percoco |
Publisher | Batsford Books |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-09-17 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1849943516 |
The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen. Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning collection of 26 garments, many with clear provenance tied to a specific location, which have never before been published and never – or very rarely – displayed. Most of the garments have an aspect in their construction that has not been previously documented, from a style of skirt trim to the method of gown closure. This practical guide begins with a general history of the early 19th-century women's dress. This is followed by 26 patterns of gowns, spencers, chemises, and corsets, each with an illustration of the finished piece and description of its construction. This must-have guide is an essential reference for anyone interested in the fashions or the history of the period, or for anyone wishing to recreate their own beautiful Regency clothing.
Dress & Vanity Fair
Title | Dress & Vanity Fair PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dresses
Title | Dresses PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Clothing trade |
ISBN |
10,000 Dresses
Title | 10,000 Dresses PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Ewert |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1583229507 |
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. "You're a BOY!" Mother and Father tell Bailey. "You shouldn't be thinking about dresses at all." Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey's imagination and courage. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses together. And Bailey's dreams come true! This gorgeous picture book—a modern fairy tale about becoming the person you feel you are inside—will delight people of all ages.
Correct Social Usage
Title | Correct Social Usage PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Etiquette |
ISBN |
Principles of Correct Dress
Title | Principles of Correct Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Hull Winterburn |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230270791 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill OCCASION SHOULD GOVERN TOILETTE IT may be protested that I am endeavoring to inculcate extravagance. But I am not, as you shall admit very shortly. I am trying to reconcile two of fashion's present demands--the one for individuality and the other for occasion. But in fact these two demands are really one. First, let me define "occasion." In the morning we will admit the suitability of a tailor-made gown worn with a blouse of excessive neatness. Such a gown the American wears at breakfast, in that respect differing from the Frenchwoman, who takes her chocolate alone in the seclusion of the boudoir, clad in a muslin or cashmere peignoir. But suppose there is a wedding, a charity bazaar, or a luncheonparty to be attended; a drive en automobile; a hunt or a ride? Each occasion will determine the choice of attire. Yet there are women who will go in tailor-made attire to an afternoon reception, or to that smartest of affairs in the eyes of the Frenchwoman, a wedding. Excuses of great number and variety the defaulter will find for herself if questioned. She will say, "This is my new frock," or, "I haven't anything else fit to go in," or, again, "The day was dull," or, "The tailor-made is my choice, you know; I never wear anything else." All poor excuses, madame, not to be tolerated in any grade of society. The governess, the employee who is earning the most modest of incomes, can do better with logic as her possession, for her wardrobe will contain all her requirements. And its items shall be at once individual and fitting to the occasion. One year she will add to her store a single evening costume and a single tailor-made dress in which to walk out with her pupils; the next she will find occasion to buy one afternoon gown of ceremony and...