Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques (eBook)

Kristina Harris (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
144 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-32017-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.

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At the turn of the century, ladies of privilege could easily afford their own dressmakers, and even middle-class housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women did their own sewing, often relying on Dressmaking, Up to Date, a how-to book published by the Butterick Publishing Company. First published in 1905 and widely considered the first modern American sewing book, this extremely rare volume is published here complete and unabridged.This Butterick manual provides clear and concise instructions for altering patterns, hand-sewing stitches, and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding and evening gowns, coats, jackets, maternity wear, undergarments, bathrobes, children's clothing, and many other articles of apparel. Today's costume historians and sewing enthusiasts will find fascinating instruction in such long-lost arts as boning a bodice perfectly, creating skirt sweepers and bust enhancers, concealing hooks and eyes, and other vintage dressmaking techniques.An indispensable archive of information on late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century clothing, this volume will be of immense interest to anyone fascinated by the fashion and costume of the period. It will also be of value to needleworkers wanting to create accurate reproductions of Victorian-era costume, or to anyone interested in applying time-honored sewing techniques to a modern wardrobe.

Inhalt

Frontispiece?The Sewing CircleHand-Sewing StitchesImportant Points and Aids in DressmakingThe Correct Method of Altering PatternsShirt-BlousesDraped WaistsSkirts"Novels, Artistic Seams"Wedding and Evening GownsThe Tailor-Made GownCoats and JacketsPractical and Ornamental StitchesBias Bands and Folds?Turning CornersAn Empire Tea-GownDesirable Garments for Maternity WearMaking and Finishing UnderwearThe Bath-RobeChildren's ClothesBoys' Suits

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Fashion and Costumes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: 1880s • 1900's • 1905 • bathrobes • bodice • Boning • books on 1880s • books on bathrobes • books on bodice • books on bustles • books on buttericks • books on clothing constructions • books on costume histories • books on costumes • books on coutures • books on delineators • books on dressmakers • books on dressmakings • books on enhancers • books on fashion histories • books on fashions • books on garments • books on hand sewings • books on knickerbockers • books on laces • books on layettes • books on manuals • books on period clothings • books on plaids • books on repairs • books on reproductions • books on repros • books on seamstresses • books on sewers • books on sewing techniques • books on stitches • books on taschen • books on vintages • bustles • butterick • clothing construction • costume designs • costume history • costume institute • Costumes • Couture • definitive • delineator • dressmakers • dressmaking • edwardian • enhancers • Fashion History • fashions • garments • hand sewing • hand-sewing • How-To • INSET • inseting • invaluable • knickerbockers • Lace • layette • Manual • needleworkers • period clothing • period correct • Plaids • Repair • Reprint • reprinting • Reproductions • repros • seamstresses • Sewers • sewing techniques • skirts • stitches • Stitching • Taschen • Vintage
• ISBN-10: 0-486-32017-0 / 0486320170
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-32017-5 / 9780486320175