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Books on Costumes & Culture 1900-1920

Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress, 1800-1909, Jean Hunnisett, Kathryn Turner (Illustrator) Worth every penny of it's hefty price tag, this book is high on scholarship, illustrations, easy to understand text and diagrams, and is one of the best, most detailed how-to manuals for costumers ever written. I had been working as a costumer for almost 20 years when I first saw this book and still, I'd say lots of it's techniques were a revelation. It shows in essence, how to reproduce costumes in this period in such a way as to make them indistinguishable from originals. 

Russell'’s Standard Fashions 1915-1919 Art Deco Fashion

Elite Fashions Catalog, 1904 (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Parisian Fashions of the Teens : 352 Elegant Costumes from "L'Art et la Mode" (Dover Pictorial Archives)

American Family of 1900-1920: Paper Dolls in Full Color

Women's Fashions of the Early 1900s : An Unabridged Republication of 'New York Fashions, 1909' 

La Toilette: A Collection of Vintage Bath and Beauty Recipes

 

Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century

Hairstyles and Fashion : A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920 (Dress, Body, Culture)

Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics

Altman's Spring and Summer Fashions Catalog, 1915

Victorian to Vamp: Women's Clothing 1900-1929

Fortuny

The Blue Book of Men's Tailoring : Theatrical Costumemaker's Pattern Book for Edwardian Men's Costumes

 

Nicholas and Alexandra Paper Dolls

Pattern Designing for Dressmakers

American Dress Pattern Catalog, 1873-1909

Patterns of Fashion 2 : Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940

Victorian and Edwardian Fashions for Women 1840 to 1919 (A Schiffer Book for Collectors With Value Guide)

 

Edwardian Ladies' Tailoring : The Twentieth Century System of Ladies' Garment Cutting

The Gibson Girl and Her America : The Best Drawings

Women's and Children's Fashions of 1917 : The Complete Perry, Dame & Co. Catalog

From Paris to Providence, Fashion, Art and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop, 1915-1947

Video,  Art Nouveau: 1890-1914

Chanel Fashion Review : Paper Dolls in Color

The Edwardian Modiste : 85 Authentic Patterns With Instructions, Fashion Plates, and Period Sewing Techniques

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922

The Voice of Fashion : 79 Turn-Of-The Century Patterns With Instructions and Fashion Plates

Everyday Fashions 1909-1920 As Pictured in Sears Catalogs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Garment Patterns for the Edwardian Lady

Victorian and Edwardian Fashion : A Photographic Survey

 

 

 
 
 

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