Historical Costume

Historical costume refers to dress, accessories, and/or fashion from a period prior to the writer's own time period.

It covers costume from an academic perspective in addition to the use of historical clothing and/or accessories in dramatic presentations and contemporary fashion.
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Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing sixteenth - century dress
The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
Creating Historical Clothes: Pattern Cutting from Tudor to Victorian Times
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500
A History of Costume (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515
Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Womens' Dress, 1500 - 1800
Corsets and Crinolines
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2
Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. ...more
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:) "We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. ...more
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

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