On 8/8/2011 11:02 AM, Carol Kocian wrote:
Blanche Payne has scale drawings of patterns. Her History of Costume
book is where I first started back in college. :-)
Me too, but the scaled diagrams are only in the first edition.
I put scaled diagrams in my books Reconstruction Era Fashions, and both
volumes of Fashions of the Gilded Age.
Other books with scaled diagrams include:
Baumgarten, Linda and John Watson. /Costume Close-Up: Clothing
Construction and Pattern 1750-1790./ New York: Costume & Fashion Press,
1999.
Burnham, Dorothy K. /Cut My Cote./ Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1973.
Burnston, Sharon Ann./Fitting & Proper: 18th-Century Clothing from the
Collection of the Chester County Historical Society. /Texarkana:
Scurlock Publishing Co., 1998.
Countryman, Ruth S. and Elizabeth Weiss Hopper. /Women's Wear of the
1920's./ Studio City: Players Press, 1998.
Countryman, Ruth S. and Elizabeth Weiss Hopper. /Women's Wear of the
1930's./ Studio City: Players Press, 2001.
Gehret, Ellen J. /Rural Pennsylvania Clothing./ York: Liberty Cap Books,
1976.
Wright, Merideth. /Put on Thy Beautiful Garments: Rural New England
Clothing, 1783--1800./ East Montpelier: The Clothes Press,
1990.Reprinted by Dover Publications as/Everyday Dress of Rural America,
1783--1800./
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books of historic clothing patterns
www.lavoltapress.com
www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress
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