Bookshelf

• The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking
The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty
• Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute
• Cut of Women’s Clothes, The, 1600-1930
• Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660-1860
• The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820
• Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century
• Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789
• Eighteenth-Century French Fashions in Full Color
• Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800: With Instructions and Patterns
• English Costume of the Eighteenth Century
• Embroidered with White: The 18th Century Fashion for Dresden Lace and Other Whiteworked Accessories
• The Eighteenth Century (History of Costume and Fashion)
• Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
• Men’s Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Costume: Cut and Fashion
• Handbook of English costume in the eighteenth century,
• Shoes and Slippers: From Snowshill, One of the World’s Leading Collections of Costume and Accessories of the 18th and 19th Centuries
• Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 – 1915
• Vintage Hats & Bonnets 1770-1970 Second Edition
• 18th Century Embroidery Techniques
• Costume Close-Up: Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750-1790
• Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)
• Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
• Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
• Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy
• Jean-Etienne Liotard: 1702-1789
• Fitting & Proper
• The Cut of Men’s Clothes: 1600-1900
• What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America (Williamsburg Decorative Arts)
• Costume in Detail: 1730-1930
• Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques
• Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body
• Corsets and Crinolines
• An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution
• Patterns of Fashion 5: The Content, Cut, Construction, and Context of Bodies, Stays, Hoops and Rumps c. 1595 – 1795

19th Century Sewing and Fashion Books:

• Costume in Detail: 1730-1930
• Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques
• Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body
• Corsets and Crinolines
• Corset Cutting and Making: RevisedEdition
• Bloomingdale’s Illustrated 1886 Catalog – Fashions, Dry Goods & Housewares
• Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques
• Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• French Fashion Plates of the Romantic Era in Full Color: 120 Plates from the “Petit Courrier des Dames,” 1830-34
• 80 Godey’s Full-Color Fashion Plates: 1838-1880 (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar, 1867-1898 (Dover Fashion and Costumes) (2000-01-02)
• Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail
• The Victorian Tailor: An Introduction to Period Tailoring
• 60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century: A Comprehensive Guide with 1,117 Illustrations (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women’s Dress, 1800-1909
• Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady’s Wardrobe (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Shoes, Hats and Fashion Accessories: A Pictorial Archive, 1850-1940 (Dover Pictorial Archive)
• The Voice of Fashion: 79 Turn-Of-The Century Patterns With Instructions and Fashion Plates
• Bustle Fashions 1885-1887: 41 Patterns with Fashion Plates and Suggestions for Adaptation
• The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette
• Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 2: Evening, Bridal, Sports, Outerwear, Accessories, and Dressmaking 1877-1882
• Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 1: Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day Dresses 1877-1882
• The Edwardian Modiste: 85 Authentic Patterns With Instructions, Fashion Plates, and Period Sewing Techniques
• Directoire Revival Fashions 1888-1889: 57 Patterns with Fashion Plates and Suggestions for Adaptation
• Reconstruction Era Fashions: 350 Sewing, Needlework, and Millinery Patterns 1867-1868
• Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen’s Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860
• Patterns of Fashion 2
• Cowgirls: Women of the Wild West
• The Victorian Dressmaker
• Embellishments: Constructing Victorian Detail
• The Workwoman’s Guide, 1838 (out of print, but also available on Google Books as a PDF)

20th Century Sewing and Fashion Books:

• Vintage Lingerie: 30 Patterns Based on Period Garments Plus Finishing Techniques
• Vintage Swimwear: Historical Patterns and Techniques
• Jazz Age Fashion: Dressed to Kill by Virginia Bates, Daisy Bates (2013) Hardcover
• Everyday Fashions of the Fifties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Everyday Fashions, 1909-1920, As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• Everyday Fashions of the Twenties: As Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• American Style and Spirit: The Fashions and Lives of the Roddis Family, 1850-1995
• Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion
• Fit for a Queen: Her Majesty Queen Sirikit s Creations by Balmain
• Charles James: Beyond Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover))
• 20th-Century Fashion in Detail
• Chanel and Her World
• Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing:: A Modern Guide to Couture-Style Sewing Using Basic Vintage Techniques (Gertie’s Sewing)
• Gertie’s Ultimate Dress Book: A Modern Guide to Sewing Fabulous Vintage Styles (Gertie’s Sewing)
• Gertie Sews Vintage Casual: A Modern Guide to Sportswear Styles of the 1940s and 1950s (Gertie’s Sewing)
• London Society Fashion 1905–1925: The Wardrobe of Heather Firbank
• Art Deco Fashion
• Art Deco Hair: Hairstyles from the 1920s & 1930s (Vintage Living)
• Art Nouveau Fashion
• 1930s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook

Stays, Corsets, and Underpinnings Books:

• Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques
• Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body
• Corsets and Crinolines
• The History of Underclothes (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
• The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners
• Vintage Lingerie: 30 Patterns Based on Period Garments Plus Finishing Techniques
• Corset Cutting and Making: RevisedEdition

Historic Hairstyling, Makeup, and Wigs Books:

• The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty
• Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film
• Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series) (Volume 1)
• Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series) (Volume 2)
• 18th Century Hair & Wig Styling: History & Step-by-Step Techniques by Kendra Van Cleave (2014-08-01)
• Art Deco Hair: Hairstyles from the 1920s & 1930s (Vintage Living)
• Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Techniques by Lauren Rennells (August 1, 2009) Paperback
• Retro Makeup: Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look by Lauren Rennells (April 25, 2011) Paperback
• Vintage Hairstyles: Simple Steps for Retro Hair with a Modern Twist

Shoes and Footwear Books:

• Womens Shoes in America, 1795-1930
• Vintage Shoes: Collecting and Wearing Twentieth-Century Designer Footwear
• Shoes: An Illustrated History
• Shoes: A History From Sandals to Sneakers
• Shoes: The Complete Sourcebook
• M. de Garsault’s 1767 Art of the Shoemaker: An Annotated Translation
• Footwear: Shoes and Boots from the Hopkins Collection 
• Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories From The Georgian Era

Hats and Headdress Books:

• Vintage Hats & Bonnets 1770-1970: Identification & Values, 2nd Edition
• Hats!: Make Classic Hats and Headpieces in Fabric, Felt, and Straw
• Period Reproduction Buckram Hats: The Costumer’s Guide (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series) by Crystal G. Herman (2015-11-23)
• Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

Surveys of Dress, Costume, and Other General Books:

• Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles, 7th Edition
• The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society 1500-1914
• 100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century (Taschen, No. 25) (Midi S.) (2 Volumes)
• Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915

General Sewing and Patterning Books and Miscellany:

• Elizabeth Friendship: Creating Historical Clothes : Pattern Cutting from Tudor to Victorian Times (Paperback); 2013 Edition
• Couture Sewing: Tailoring Techniques
• Couture Sewing Techniques
• The Pattern Making Primer: All You Need to Know About Designing, Adapting, and Customizing Sewing Patterns
• Vogue Sewing, Revised and Updated
• The Perfect Fit (Singer Sewing Reference Library)
• Fast Fit: Easy Pattern Alterations for Every Figure
• The Art of Manipulating Fabric
• Ribbonwork: The Complete Guide- Techniques for Making Ribbon Flowers and Trimmings
• The Artful Ribbon: Beauties in Bloom
• Vintage Couture Tailoring by von Nordheim, Thomas (9/1/2012)
• Draping: The Complete Course

Vintage Knitting and Sewing With Knits:

• Sweater Girls: 20 Patterns for Starlet Sweaters, Retro Wraps & Glamour Knits (Paperback) – Common
• Sewing with Knits: Classic, Stylish Garments from Swimsuits to Eveningwear (Focus on Fabric) by Connie Long (2000-03-01)
• The Colette Guide to Sewing Knits: Professional Techniques for Beautiful Everyday Garments by Alyson Clair (2014-04-02)
• Vintage Design Workshop: Knitting Techniques for Modern Style
• Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook