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Patterns of Fashion
Patterns of Fashion: Cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear, etc | Janet Arnold, Jenny Tiramani, Santina M. Levey
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No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era. Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.
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I don't know if any of you are fanatics of history, historical dress, historical costuming, costuming for theater, or sewing...but I am, and these books came in the mail today, and they include SCALABLE PATTERNS to sew from, and detailed studies of extant garments, and I could just die of happiness.

starlight97 It looks awesome! I wish I knew how to sew so I could make my own vintage dresses 🤩 5y
jchawkins @starlight97 it is so much fun!! If you have access to a sewing machine, there are a lot of really great pattern companies now that have good beginner projects and good support communities! 5y
starlight97 @jchawkins then I just have to get a machine! 😃 5y
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