Wear Vintage Now!: Choose It, Care for It, Style It Your Way
Title | Wear Vintage Now!: Choose It, Care for It, Style It Your Way PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Wilds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2020-01-14 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781087815275 |
Wear Vintage Now! is a book for all who love women's vintage fashion, but could use more knowledge-and encouragement-to wear and collect it well. Learn how to choose vintage items that fit, how to start with winning pieces, how to maintain your finds, how to style yourself in vintage, and many other skills to make you a vintage virtuoso.
Vintage Fashion
Title | Vintage Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Baxter Wright |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2007-10-23 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0061252018 |
Vintage Fashion is the ultimate guide to the most exemplary women's clothing from the turn of the twentieth century through the end of the 1980s. Along with a detailed, authoritative text, this gorgeous book offers more than 250 outstanding full-color photographs showcasing the quality fabrics, innovative techniques, silhouettes, shapes, and exquisite workmanship that are testimony to enduring and influential styles. Each chapter focuses on a specific decade and is a rich survey of each era, placing the evolution of women's fashion in a cultural context. The most important designers and signature looks are discussed in detail and emphasized through beautiful illustrations, photographs, and fabric swatches. Finally, each chapter ends with a Key Looks feature that offers an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colors, and details that defined each era. Vintage Fashion concludes with a shopping guide, which not only offers tips on where to buy vintage pieces, but also how to care for them, and glossaries on fashion terms and the century's most collectable and important designers. The definitive word on the most influential designers and looks of the twentieth century, this book is an invaluable resource for lovers of fashion and vintage clothing as well as a source of inspiration for designers and those looking to spice up their personal style.
Making Vintage 1940s Clothes for Women
Title | Making Vintage 1940s Clothes for Women PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Magill |
Publisher | The Crowood Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2017-08-04 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1785003119 |
The 1940s were an iconic period of women's dress history, with the familiar square shoulders, crepe tea dresses and seamed stockings paired with red lips, victory curls and head scarves. This book explains the period's sewing techniques and makes a range of 1940s outfits to recreate the look of those vintage years. With detailed step-by-step instruction and over 300 photographs, it captures the style of the time and explains the impact of wartime austerity on the cut and construction of women's dress. Contents include: historical context and details of government regulations of the time; instructions and patterns for recreating a range of women's clothes, including blouses, skirts, slacks, shirt frocks, evening dress and tea dresses; key techniques such as transfering pattern markings, making darts, fastenings and finishing touches; examples of how to complete the look with hairstyles, make-up, shoes and accessories. This new book will help you recreate the clothes and the vintage style of the 1940s 'make do' years, and will be of particular interest to costume designers, fashion designers and students, dress historians, historic revival and reenactment participants and home dressmakers with a general interest in vintage dress. Superbly illustrated with 331 photographs and patterns.
Wearable Vintage Fashion
Title | Wearable Vintage Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Waterhouse |
Publisher | Artis |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fashion |
ISBN | 9781908126276 |
Presents desirable, affordable and accessible vintage clothing and accessories in a new and fun format.
Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1900-1909
Title | Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1900-1909 PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Mabel La Barre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN |
Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919
Title | Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1910-1919 PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Mabel La Barre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
"This publication gives an overview of the characteristic of various items of women's apparel from 1910 through 1919. This is not a price guide but rather a reference to help you date your own vintage apparel and research the clothes of the end of the Edwardian era to the beginning the of the nineteen-twenties"--Page 4 of cover.
Vintage Fashions for Women
Title | Vintage Fashions for Women PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Harris |
Publisher | Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780764301971 |
Bebop back to post-war America, to crinoline, snug-bodiced, full-skirted dresses, sheath gowns, clear plastic evening shoes, and much more. This colorful book illustrates hundreds of examples of this exciting era of design. Over 500 photos will make it useful to collectors and designers alike. Plus, to help with the hunt, there's an up-to-date value guide.