Historical Costume Books
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Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing sixteenth - century dress (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.46 — 512 ratings — published 2006
The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.58 — 43 ratings — published 2011
Creating Historical Clothes: Pattern Cutting from Tudor to Victorian Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.43 — 28 ratings — published 2013
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.52 — 77 ratings — published 1986
Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.27 — 227 ratings — published 2001
A History of Costume (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.86 — 216 ratings — published 1946
Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,931 ratings — published 2002
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.37 — 743 ratings — published 1998
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.40 — 732 ratings — published 2005
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.82 — 17 ratings — published 2011
Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Womens' Dress, 1500 - 1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.34 — 68 ratings — published
Corsets and Crinolines (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.21 — 306 ratings — published 1954
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.74 — 39 ratings — published 2012
Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.64 — 507 ratings — published 1972
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.17 — 42 ratings — published 1980
In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.65 — 63 ratings — published 2013
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.23 — 630 ratings — published 2010
Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.09 — 102 ratings — published 1987
Tudor Costume and Fashion (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.91 — 69 ratings — published 1997
Medieval Costume and Fashion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.89 — 81 ratings — published 1927
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,598 ratings — published 2006
Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.67 — 146 ratings — published 1996
The Louvre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.26 — 123 ratings — published 2000
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,928 ratings — published 2022
How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men’s Fashion from the 17th to the 20th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.36 — 84 ratings — published
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.14 — 730 ratings — published 2019
Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.27 — 791 ratings — published 2015
20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.25 — 335 ratings — published 1965
The Corset: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.14 — 498 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Costume History / Vollständige Kostümgeschichte / Le Costume Historique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.28 — 419 ratings — published 1888
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.05 — 460 ratings — published 1963
Antique Clothing: French Sewing by Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1990
Jane Austen's Sewing Box: Craft Projects & Stories from Jane Austen's Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.07 — 83 ratings — published 2009
Heirloom Sewing for Jack and Jill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2000
The Vintage Collection of Martha Pullen (Volume 1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood (Martha Pullen's Favorite Places Volume 3)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2008
Swedish handcraft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1976
Håndplagg til bunader og folkedrakter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2003
Made in Sapmi: En BOK Till Lars Pirak: En V'Arld AV Samisk Konst Och SL'Ojd = a World of Sami Art and Handicraft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Norwegian Bunads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Draping Period Costumes: Classical Greek to Victorian: (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.42 — 33 ratings — published 2013
Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Dominos, Dolmans, Coats, Pelisses, Spencers, Calashes, Hoods & Bonnets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2003
Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Womens' Dress, Medieval - 1500 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.16 — 38 ratings — published 1996
Medieval Heraldry (Men-at-Arms, 99)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.54 — 57 ratings — published 1980
Dress in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 3.81 — 36 ratings — published
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2008
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 (Medieval Clothing and Textiles)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2006
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3 (Medieval Clothing and Textiles)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2007
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 (Medieval Clothing And Textiles)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 2005
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-costume)
avg rating 4.41 — 190 ratings — published 2019
“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.”
― The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
― 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.”
― The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.”
― The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

