THE Antique & Vintage Clothing Book List!

[Pinkcoke]

'Foundations of Fashion' The Symmington Corsetry Collection 1860-1900 by Phillip Warren (ISBN 0850224365)
Published in 2001 by Leicestershire County Council who hold the collection of over a thousand garments it is a fantastic resource for corsetry, underwear and the social history associated with both. To my joy it also had a few excellent pages about their swimwear range which started in 1937, which has already helped me date three swimming costumes I was unsure about. It gives individual photographs of most of the collection together with very useful descriptions on why the item was produced, whether or not it was successful and the materials and how it fastens. Lots of period adverts; it also has a section describing the manufacturing process and an excellect glossary of specialist terms including brand names, parts, materials and techniques.

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

bumping up this resources/book list for the poster of this question.

 

[nina0819]

Hi nice to meet you

 

[BonniesVintageClothesLine]

Thank you so much, Lei, for all of your work in putting this wonderful list of books together. And, Linn, thank you for adding "New York Fashion:The Evolution of American Style" to the list. I don't have that book and it sounds like one that will be very useful.

 

[Romero]

Thank you so much!

 

[pink pineapple]

***19TH CENTURY AND EDWARDIAN COSTUME:***

1886 Bloomingdale's Illustrated Catalog (Dover reprint)

1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog (reprint)

1901 Eaton's Catalog (reprint)

1908 Sears Roebuck Catalog (reprint)

Madaleine Brant:
-The Etquette of Dress

K.B. Brett;
-Women's Costume in Early Ontario
-Women's Costume in Ontario, 1867- 1907 (Royal Ontario Museum books)

Penelope Byrde:
-Jane Austen Fashion

Nancy Villa Bryk:
-American Dress Pattern Catalogs, 1873-1909: Four Complete Reprints

Virginia A.S. Careless:
-Responding to Fashion, The Clothing of the O'Reilly Family (One of my FAV books about the Vancouver museum acquisition of the O'Reilly family's clothing
along with photos of the family in the clothes, etc.)

Eileen Collard:
-Clothing in English Canada Circa 1867- 1907

C. Willett Cunnington:
-English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
-The History of Underclothes
-The Perfect Lady (A rare book showing clothing from the author's own collection on live models)

Priscilla Harris Dalrymple:
-American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs

Alison Gernsheim:
-Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey

Madeleine Ginsburg:
-Victorian Dress in Photographs

Kristina Harris:
-The Child in Fashion: 1750-1920
-Victorian & Edwardian Fashions for Women, 1840-1919
-Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs

Talbot Hughes:
-Old English Costumes, A sequence of fashions through the 18th and 19th centuries. (A VERY rare book from the 1910's showing clothing from the V&A when it
first opened it's costume gallery on real people. Edwardians in antique clothing, how wonderful!!!)

O. Henry Mace:
-Collector's Guide to Early Photographs (How to date antique photos by clothing, etc)

Doris Langley Moore:
-THE WOMAN IN FASHION (Fabulous book written in 1949, showing clothing dating from 1800 up to 1920 from her own
collection shown on her celebrity friends!)

JoAnne Olian:
-Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustree"

Jacqueline Beaudoin- Ross
-Form and Fashion, Nineteenth Century Montreal Dress (McCord Museum book)

Linda Setnik:
-Victorian Costume for Ladies

Catherine Smith and Cynthia Grieg:
-Women in Pants (Fascinating history of women in the 19th century who wore trousers and why. Loaded with antique photos!)

J.A.E Wood:
How to Make a Dress (1897) (An original rare book on how to make a leg 'O mutton sleeve dress).

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