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Books On
Victorian Fashions, Accessories &Lifestyle (cont.)
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Victorian Fashions
and Costumes From Harper's Bazar 1867-1898
This book consist of the finest illustrations from Harper's
Bazar between the years 1867 and 1898, the period of its peak
importance. These illustrations not only show you what apparel appealed
to our Victorian ancestors, but give you an idea of the evolutionary
nature of fashion as well. Since no costume was complete without
accessories a full line of hats, fans, parasols, muffs, gloves,
handkerchiefs, jewelry, shoes and hair styles is shown as well. A
selection of children's attire is also included. The introduction covers
the history of Harper's Bazar and examines the various phases
fashion went through between 1867-1898.
Glossary of unfamiliar terms. 283 plates containing over 1,000
illustrations. 294pp. 9 3/8 x 12 1/4. Paperbound.
Book #1107
$19.95
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Authentic
Victorian Dressmaking Techniques
At the turn of the century, ladies of privilege
could easily afford their own dressmakers, and even middle-class
housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women
did their own sewing, often relying on Dressmaking, Up to Date, a
how-to book published by the Butterick Publishing Company. First
published in 1905 and widely considered the first modern American sewing
book, this extremely rare volume is published here complete and
unabridged.
This Butterick manual provides clear and concise
instructions for altering patterns, hand sewing stitches and creating
shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding and evening gowns, coats, jackets,
and many other articles of apparel. Today's costume historians and
sewing enthusiasts will find fascinating instruction in such long-lost
arts as boning a bodice perfectly, crating skirt sweepers and bust
enhancers, concealing hooks and eyes, and other vintage dressmaking
techniques. 144pp. 61/2 x 91/4. Paperbound.
Book #1115
$12.95
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Victorian Fashion
In America
A compelling pictorial archive of over 200 vintage
photographs depicting a broad range of faces and fashions from
American's Victorian period (1850s-1910). Rare tintypes, cartes de
visite (small photos glued to calling-card-sized mounts), cabinet cards,
and other authentic materials offer a wonderful glimpse of real people
in real clothes. Each photograph accompanied by an identifying caption.
264 black-and-white photographs. Introduction.
Captions. 88pp. 83/8 x 111/4".
Paperbound
Book #1148
$12.95
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| Victorian & Edwardian
Fashions From La Mode Illustratee
La Mode Illustree was one of most popular and avidly read
fashion periodicals in the second half of the 19th century. Wealthy,
style-conscious women followed its dictates on appropriate wardrobes for
a vast number of social functions-from royal weddings and elegant dinner
parties to automobile touring and seaside activities.
Over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced directly from rare issues of
the magazine, provide a panoramic view of ladies' fashions between 1860
and 1914. 256pp. 93/8 x 121/4.
Paperbound.
Book #1111 $19.95
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American
Victorian Costume
in Photographs
Over 280 rare photographs depict American men, women and children
of all ages, dressed in what must have been, in most cases, their Sunday
best. From page to page, in both text and pictures, every trend in
fashions unfolds dramatically from 1840's to the turn of the century.
Costume historians will appreciate the authenticity and detail of the
clothing depicted here, photographic historians and collectors will find
the book a helpful tool in dating and identifying images. 112pp. 9 x 12.
Paperbound.
Book #1117
$14.95
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| Full Color Victorian Fashions
1870-1885
Le Journal des Demoiselles and Le Moniteur des Dames et
des Demoiselles were among the most popular fashion magazines
published for French women during the latter half of the 19th century.
This volume reproduces in glorious color 52 fashion plates from
extremely rare issues of these two periodicals. 64pp. 91/4
x 121/4
Book #1112 $16.95
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Montgomery Ward Company Catalogue of
1895
The Montgomery Ward catalogue
provides one of the few irrefutably accurate pictures of what life was
"really like" in the gay nineties, for it described and
illustrated almost anything that anybody could possibly need or want in
the way of "store-bought" goods.
In 1895 Montgomery Ward was the
oldest, largest, and most representative mail-order house in the
country. The brain child of a former traveling salesman, it issued its
first catalogue in 1872, a 1-page listing of items. By 1895, the
catalogue, reprinted here, had grown to 624 pages and listed some 25,000
items, almost all of them illustrated with line drawings.
Unabridged, unaltered reprint of the
Catalogue and Buyers' Guide, No. 57, Spring and Summer 1895. Innumerable
illustrations. 624pp. 8 1/2 x 11 5/8".
Paperbound.
Book #1142 $28.95
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