The Costumer's Manifesto: Madeleine Vionnet by Betty Kirkie and Issey Miyake has a detailed history of this pioneer of bias cutting, along with many patterns, diagrams and photos of Vionnet's best work.

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Books on Costume and Social Life 1920-1940

Art Deco Fashion

Madeleine Vionnet by Betty Kirkie and Issey Miyake has a detailed history of this pioneer of bias cutting, along with many patterns, diagrams and photos of Vionnet's best work.

Gordon Conway : Fashioning a New Woman

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Madeleine Vionnet

From Paris to Providence, Fashion, Art and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop, 1915-1947
Fashions of the Early Twenties : The 1921 Philipsborn’s Catalog
Sunkissed: Swimwear and the Hollywood Beauty Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli
Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties Paper Dolls in Full Color
Roaring Twenties Paper Dolls
Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns

120 Great Fashion Designs, 1900–1950, CD-ROM and Book

Fashions of the Thirties : 476 Authentic Copyright-Free Illustrations French Fashion Illustrations of the Twenties : 634 Cuts from La Vie Parisienne

1920S Fashions from B. Altman & Company

Fashions of the Roaring '20s

Not Only Erte, a PDF pamphlet ad for a book on designs & designers for the Paris music halls, with many pictures

Cubism and Fashion
French Art Deco Fashions: In Pochoir Prints from the 1920s (Schiffer Design Book)
French Fashions 'of Good Taste' 1920-1922: From Pochoir Illustrations (Schiffer Design Book)


Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns


Women's Wear of the 1930's, With Complete Patterns

Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s

Swing Style: Fashions of the 1930s-1950s

Collectible Fashions of the Turbulent 1930s
1920's Fashion design/Dise�os de la moda en los a�os 1920

120 Great Fashion Designs 1900-1950 Book and CD-ROM

Erte' The Complete Graphic Works on CD

The 1920S (Fashion Sourcebooks)

The 1930s (Fashion Sourcebooks)

Couture Culture : A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

Vintage Fashions for Women 1920s-1940s : With Values

Fashions of the Early Twenties : The 1921 Philipsborn's Catalog (Dover Books on Fashion)

Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from Harper's Bazar

Erte's Fashion Designs : 218 Illustrations from Harper's Bazar, 1918-1932

Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood
Glamorous Movie Stars of the Thirties : Paper Dolls
Greta Garbo Paper Dolls in Full Color
Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941

Victorian to Vamp: Women's Clothing 1900-1929

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt and His Family : Paper Dolls in Full Color

Schiaparelli Fashion Review Paper Dolls in Full Color

Elsa Schiaparelli (Universe of Fashion)
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Fashion Paper Dolls in Full Color

Permanent Waves : The Making of the American Beauty Shop

Joan Crawford Paper Dolls in Full Color

1920's Fashion Design : Modedesign Der Zwanziger Jahre = Disenos De LA Moda En Los Anos 1920 = Fashion Design Degli Anni Venti = LA Mode Des Annees 1920

The 1920's (Fashion Sourcebooks)

1920's Fashions from B. Altman & Company

Chanel Fashion Review : Paper Dolls in Color

Ziegfeld Follies Paper Dolls in Full Color

Costume in Detail : 1730-1930

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

Bauhaus Textiles : Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop

Authentic French Fashions of the Twenties : 413 Costume Designs from L'Art Et LA Mode

Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics

Everyday Fashions of the Twenties As Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs

Pattern Designing for Dressmakers

Bathing Beauties : French Photo Postcards of the 1920s

Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs

Sonia Delaunay Patterns and Designs in Full Color

Art in Dress (1922) Women's & children's fashions and patterns in this nifty reprint. I have a few 114_small.jpg (3986 bytes) scans from the original here, which are identical to those in the reprint. The reprint is superior to the online version, however, since it includes all the text and images in higher resolution than my scans of the old book.

Poiret

Fashions of the Thirties : 476 Authentic Copyright-Free Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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

Chanel : Her Style and Her Life

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