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Happy Thursday everyone! It'southward only one more mean solar day until the weekend.
I know this is "mermaid week", but information technology seemed to me that even mermaid'southward might demand to step off onto dry-land one time in a while.
And then, instead of Accessory Thursday, this week nosotros accept "shoes and dry state clothes" Thursday. That title just doesn't ringlet off the tongue very well, does it?
But y'all know what I hateful.
So, I take been traveling so much this last few weeks, I feel like I can't continue rail of where I am or what I am doing anymore. I colored this week'southward paper dolls while visiting my Sis in Alaska and I am writing this post in Georgia where I am for a professional conference. I tin can't wait to get a week where I don't travel and tin can just accept my quite at home routine of groceries, piece of work, friends and art.
A few days ago, I posted a blog on my Patreon folio about finding inspiration. You lot can read it here for the adjacent few days, but I'm endmost it to non-Patrons on Monday.
Women's magazines in the 19th century published fashion plates- illustrations of women'due south clothing intended to guide the reader towards the latest styles. I love fashion plates, merely often the scans of fashion magazines scan the plates very poorly. On the other hand, many wonderful repositories of only style plates be such equally the Casey Style Plate index, simply since plates were so oftentimes cut from the magazines, these collections omit the contextual data we need to understand the plates.
So, I spent some time pairing up beautifully scanned plates from the Casey Style Plate Alphabetize with their descriptions from various fashion magazines. I did excerpted the descriptions, added punctuation where needed, and corrected some truly strange spellings and primitive discussion choices. Riband means ribbon, apparently, though I did take to look that one upwards.
I chose to focus on 1834. Maybe considering I am working on a paper doll from this era… Maybe….
Godey's Lady's Book Fashion Plates from 1834
If there ever was a mag that barely needs an introduction, information technology is Godey's Lady's Volume. In the 19th century, it was the almost widely circulated magazine in the The states. That'due south non just the most widely circulated women's magazine, the most widely circulated mag period. It began in 1830, just didn't reach the height of its popularity until afterward Sarah Josepha Hale took over as the editor in 1837. She was an astonishing woman and helped found the vacation of Thanksgiving. She also wrote the plant nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
(The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic describes identical dresses in their November 1833 effect.)
Evening Dress (left) –The robe is composed of a new kind of gauze, called gaze fleur des anges, a rose-colored ground, flowered in… a blond lace blueprint, and worn over a satin slip to stand for. The corsage is low, cutting in a very graceful manner on the shoulders… The lappel, bust, and lesser of the corsage, are each edged with blond lace. Bouffant sleeve slashed in front of the arm. The hair parted on the forehead, is disposed in low-cal loose curls… A one-half wreath of blue wild flowers is placed rather far dorsum (on the head) … gloves of white knitted silk, resembling double-grounded lace. Black satin slippers of the sandal kind.
Carriage Dress (right- identified equally a Morning Apparel) – A pelisse of lemon-colored gros frincesse… The sleeves very large from the shoulder to the bend of the arm, sit nearly, only non quite close to the wrist…. Pelerine (cape) of ii falls, deep on the back and shoulders…. and knots of ribbon much larger than those on the sleeves are placed at equal distances from the waist to the bottom of the skirt. Lemon-colored satin chapeau, lined with stake lilac velvet… The trimming consists of knots of lemon-colored gauze ribbon and… flowers to correspond. Cashmere scarf. Lilac child gloves.
Evening Apparel (left) –Robe of.. satin; a low corsage, manifestly behind, but disposed in drapery folds in front… and turning back round the bust in the pelerine form. The lappel and the bust… are both bordered with blond lace… The sleeves are of the double bouffant class; the lower bouffant is extremely small; information technology is shaded by a row of blond lace… The border of the dress is embroidered in discrete bouquets in silk to correspond… a turban of white and blue gauze… A white ostrich plume, tipped with blue, rises from the bandeau, and completes the trimming.
Evening Apparel (right) – Satin under-dress of a peculiar shade of grayness; the corsage is cutting low, sits close to the shape, and is bordered with blond lace… A deep flounce of blond lace encircles the border of the dress… the sleeves of the unmarried bouffant form over satin… Knots of fire-colored gauze riband decorate the sleeves, and the sides of the robe. The hair is divided on the forehead, falls in loose curls at the sides of the confront, and is combed up tight to the summit of the head, where it is arranged in a cluster of low-cal bows, in which a sprig composed of colored gems is inserted. A bandeau, composed too of colored gems is brought from the sprig circular the forehead.
Ladies' Pocket Mag Fashion Plates from 1834
The Ladies' Pocket Magazine was published in London. Every bit far every bit I can tell, it came out twice a year and was small format (pocket-size) and included a variety of content from stories to not-fiction, poems, essays and fashion plates. The plates were divided between styles from London and styles from Paris.
Dinner Dress- A green satin round dress a low body the front crossed in full drapery folds on the bosom. Long sleeves very wide and terminating in deep tight cuffs. Blond lace mantelet… The cap also equanimous of blond… is trimmed with an ornamentation of cut ribbon on one side and a bow on the other.
Evening Dress- A velvet robe of a new color adjoining on lilac. The body cut low and square is trimmed with blond lace arranged in the lapel mode. Bouffant sleeves… The hair is dressed in loose curls at the sides and in loftier light bows on the height of the caput. Information technology is adorned with a bandeau of fancy jewelry and a sprig of… roses inserted in the bows.
Walking Dress- A pelisse of apple-dark-green satin… trimming of white play tricks fur descends in a straight band down the corsage and passes from thence to the bottom of the skirt…. Light-green satin bonnet to correspond round and rather deep brim bordered with a blond lace ruche… The trimming of the crown is equanimous of ribbon which forms a bespeak in the heart and two full blown roses inserted one on each side of the band on the top.
Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles Lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, etc. Fashion Plates from 1834
The Lady'due south Magazine and Museum was born afterward two older ladies magazines came together- The Lady's Magazine and the Lady'southward Monthly Museum. Both magazines began in the tardily 18th century in England to cater to the women'southward market. By the 1830s, facing competition, they combined into one publication and continued until 1847.
Toilette de Ville – Hat of… satin ornamented with two ostrich feathers. Cloak… lined with satin… The cape is most half the length of the cloak… The cape is cut open at each side… and shows the sleeves which are immense… The collar and cuffs of black velvet.
Child's Dress- Cloak of pink satin made with big sleeves and pelerine…. the cloak is fastened circular the waist by a… boa of swan's downwardly… Frock and trousers… to friction match and trimmed at the tops with swan'south down. Satin hat with a plain ribbon crossed in front end and descending at the sides.
Costume de Soiree– Dress of organdy embroidered in colored worsteds [in a design of] rose buds and foliage… The embroidery is continued in a low-cal wreath round the lesser of the brim to mark where the hem should come up… The cap is… a plain crown and excessively full border which is very deep in front and diminishes gradually towards the sides… White gloves, white silk stockings, and black satin shoes.
The sitting figure shows the back of the aforementioned gown. This was a common "play a joke on" in plates of this era and I think it'due south pretty charming.
Thoughts on the 1830s? Other periods of fashion I should accept on?
Sources
Casey Style Plate Alphabetize
Godey's Lady's Book
Lady'southward Pocket Book Vol i 1834
Lady's Magazine and Museum 1834
Every bit a child, my favorite paper dolls were historical newspaper dolls. I had everything from paper doll flappers to knights. I still tend towards historical paper dolls in my own collecting, especially those depicting an era that I don't see very oft.
Then, for last post of 2015, I idea it would be fun to post a round-up of all the historical paper dolls on Paper Thin Personas from 2010 when I did my offset historical newspaper doll (a teddy comport with regency fashions) until 2015.
As some of yous may retrieve, one of my goals in 2015 was to create at least 10 historical newspaper doll posts in 2015. I surpassed my goal.
I wanted to make newspaper doll sets representing periods of way history that I either didn't know much about or that challenged me to draw things that I would normally shy away from, considering they were intimidating- like the patterns of the Tudor era or the ruffles and pleats of the 18th century.
Mostly though, I wanted to a chance to dig back into my passion for historical dress inquiry which I had let slip a little as I went through grad school. Then, today I am going to share every historical paper doll on the blog organized by era of history.
Updated to add: If you want to meet all of my historical paper dolls as of 2021, check out my Historical Paper Doll Gallery. There's dozens more of these in at that place. 🙂
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This is ane of several posts I plan on doing focusing on historical costume inquiry resources. Today, I am focusing on a topic that I think is really important and also fairly hard to research: Corsets and Underwear.
It may non come up as a surprised that at that place are a lot of myths about corset history. Fewer most underwear history in general, but corsets weren't worn in a vacuum, after all.
As some of you know, I collect costume history books, and so I might every bit well embrace that obsession while I'm at information technology. My goal with these little selected bibligraphys is NOT to list every single book published on a topic. Rather, I desire to share the books that I find well-nigh useful.
The Selection Critera
i. Accept I really seen information technology? If I hadn't actually seen the book, than it doesn't get to continue this list.
2. Do I actually think its worthwhile? If I don't, than information technology doesn't become on this list. At present, this isn't a list of what I think are the best, merely what I think are decent, so some of these I exercise criticize.
three. Does it focus specifically on underwear and/or corsetry? There are a lot of skilful books on Tudor dress that talk about underwear and at that place are a lot of good Victorian fashion books that talk about corsets, only that'southward non the point of this list. This list is for specialized resource. So, the volume has to be focused on corset history or underwear history.
4. Is it just a design volume? I accept no outcome with books with patterns, but this bibliography isn't about how to make corsets. There are fantabulous books on corset construction that don't touch on the history of the garments. And then, those are straight out. Some of these books do include patterns, nevertheless.
That'southward information technology. That's how things concluded up on this bibliography. Non exactly the nigh complicated criteria.
The Bibliography of Books on Corset and Underwear History
Cunnington, C. Willett, and Phillis Cunnington. The History of Underclothes. N.p.: Dover, 1992.
Originally published in London in 1951, information technology was reprinted by Dover in 1992. It starts in the Medieval flow and goes through nearly 1940. Now, permit me brand a few things clear here. The first is that this volume was written in the 1950s and therefore information technology has to be recognized equally a dated resource. It likewise lacks extensive illustration, once more because it was written in a time when illustrating a book was much more expensive and challenging than it is today. Despite these flaws, this might be one of the best overview books on this topic around. At least, I have even so to find it the equal. Plus, they cite all their illustrations, and then yay! Citation!
My but complaint is that the Dover reprint is about the size of a trade newspaper back. I wish it was larger. As far as complaints go, I call up that is pretty small-scale.
Ewing, Elizabeth. Clothes and Undress: A History of Women's Underwear. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1978.
Basically, Ewing attempts to do what Cunnington did in an updated fashion. After devoting almost maybe a dozen pages to the period between 3000 and 1500, the book and then covers the next few hundred years in more detail. I think Ewing's work is decent just non fantastic. I'm not a large fan of the illustrations, but the text is well written.
Lynn, Eleri, Richard Davis, and Leonie Davis. Underwear: Way in Detail. London: V&A, 2010.
This is such a beautiful book. I mean, I love all the Way in Detail books by the V&A, but this 1 is really glorious. For those of you unfamiliar with the Fashion in Detail collection, it is structured so that y'all get a close up photograph of a garment, 2 line drawings of the garment and and then a description of the garment. Unlike many fashion books, the Fashion in Item drove focuses on, well, the details. So the books are oft structured effectually specific elements like button holes or lace, rather than around fourth dimension period. Equally much as I dearest this book (and I beloved it so much I own 2 copies), I don't think I would buy it equally the merely costume history book you own. Still, if you desire center candy… this book every bit heart candy.
Salen, Jill. Corsets: Historic Patterns and Techniques. Hollywood, CA: Costume & Fashion, 2008.
This is ane of those books that has patterns, but I have never made anything from them and I don't think information technology's really a "construction" book, rather it is a detailed study of about 24 corsets. The earliest is from around 1750 and the latest is from 1817. There are also two actually cute footling doll corsets included which is rather fun. Each corset gets a photo, a hand-fatigued pattern and a detailed description. The unique inclusion of motherhood stays and children's corsets makes this a particularly valuable book, but it focuses strictly on corsets, then be aware.
Steele, Valerie. The Corset: A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale Up, 2001.
Steele takes on 400 years of corset history in this book and looks at both why women wore corsets and what their purpose was. Peradventure the well-nigh fascinating part of the book, however, is the section she devotes to await at the mod obsession with "fit" bodies in relation to the pasts obsession with corsetry. Well illustrated and well written, it's a slap-up book, only it is strictly about corsets.
Summers, Leigh. Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset. Oxford: Berg, 2001.
If you lot're looking for a book of cute photos of corsets, this ain't it. If y'all are looking for a wonderful study on the sociological implications of the corset and its evolution, than this is totally that book. It'due south a fascinating look on the part corsets played in construction Victorian femininity and middle-grade culture. I think Summers and Steele are doing similar things in their books and I call back both are fantabulous. Summers is a chip more focused on the Victorians than Steele who delves more into modern and fetish corset aspects.
Waugh, Norah. Corsets and Crinolines. New York: Theatre Arts, 1970.
In that location are sure works in a field that are seminial and Waugh'southward Corsets and Crinolines is 1 of those books. First published in the 1950s, it discusses about 1500 until almost 1920. Waugh organizes her work in large historical periods than by type of garments. So, finding stuff can be challenging. Yet, one time y'all become by the wacky organization and sometimes tiny font, Waugh's piece of work is 1 of the well-nigh comprehensive books on the subject area. Along with period patterns and diagrams, she quotes contemporary sources and includes tons of lovely primary source information. Unlike Cunnington'due south work (which came out around the aforementioned time) Waugh doesn't spent much fourth dimension talking most cultural implications of garments, she just gives tons and tons of lovely data. Some of it a trifle disorganized, I grant, but I simply don't care.
Anytime, I will ain a hard comprehend addition this book, but that mean solar day might exist a while off.
So, that's my listing. Did I miss any stellar texts on the subject field? Is in that location something I should runway down to check out? Let me know in a annotate.
I linked to Amazon in this list generally, simply check your local library first. A lot of these are normally institute in those places and I am big fan of seeing a work before investing. Don't just invest, look at information technology first. I mean, you can take my work for it, only I'd rather you lot make your ain choices.
Today, we're going talk most Viking women's wearable, because I was working on a Viking newspaper doll. As e'er happens with me, I did a lot of inquiry. This post could have been many more paragraphs, only what I wanted to practice today was write a quick overview. The truth is that nosotros actually don't know what Viking women wore. Rather, scholars have examined various pieces of archaeological show and take come up with theories which, at times, completely contradict each other. In the this postal service, I tried to summarize the major scholars on the topic and explain what I learned while researching my Viking paper doll.
I maybe many things, just I am not a scholar on Viking apparel.
Who were the Vikings?
The Vikings were a Germanic Norse seafaring culture which existed from nigh 700 ACE until about grand ACE. The primary strongholds of Viking culture were Norway, Sweden and Denmark, merely there where were Viking settlements in England, Ireland, Iceland and Greenland. The Vikings also fabricated contact every bit far equally the Middle East, Russia, and China. Seriously, these dudes got around. Their travels and expansion heavily influenced European medieval cultures.
Basic Overview
Information technology is by and large agreed that Viking women wore clothing; however, theories differ on what this clothing looked like. Near agree that women wore a shirt of some kind underneath a dress suspended from 2 oval brooches. This dress is often called an frock-dress or smokkr. If you demand to mod version, imagine a jumper. The frock-dress was held up past oval brooches, sometimes called dwarf brooches. Over top of the frock-dress women may accept worn an apron in front end, a pleated railroad train in back, a caftan coat, a cloak or a shawl. That's one of the areas scholars disagree on. The exact meaning of the apron-clothes and who was entitled to wear it is likewise a topic of debate. I'thousand not going to get into that discussion hither. It should, however, be noted that this frock-wearing apparel does not appear to have been universally worn past women of all social statuses and ages.
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The net tin be pretty messy when it comes to historical costume and mode research. When I started working on my 10th century Anglo-Saxon paper doll for one of my drawing winners, Gwendolyn, I found myself flummoxed.
The 10th century is a transitional period in Anglo-Saxon apparel and non one extensively covered in near sources. I hope to have my Anglo-Saxon paper doll up tomorrow.
A full bibliography is at the lesser of the post, each plate is credited underneath information technology. Since I tin't seem to get my footnotes plugin to work, I'm going to use inline citations (which I hate, by the way, just what tin you do?). There is only one book I was able to find that covers the tenth century with the sort of particular I wanted and that was Owen-Crocker'southward Clothes in Anglo-Saxon England. You're going to come across me mostly citing her. (Funny story, I found another book which covered the menstruum briefly and the person they cited was… drum roll please… Owen-Crocker.)
And so… Let'south do this matter!
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Recently, I was asked past Fashion Doll Fridays had concluded and when the Flora paper doll might get some stylish outfits. The answer is… probably never on the Flora outfit front, but Fashion Doll Fridays ended when I stopped doing such a regularly scheduled blog. The historical paper dolls are the hardest to draw, because of enquiry and planning time.
I'm a librarian and I'm compulsive about research, plus I collect fashion history books. Sometimes this is a good matter… I have books I tin can use, but sometimes this means I get wrapped up frustrated when I can't figure out what shoes looked similar circa 1845. I don't mind adapting, just I similar to be pretty darn sure that what I'm drawing is correct, or as correct as I can be given constraints of time and/or skill. So, I don't practice as many historical paper doll sets as I would similar.
However, information technology recently occurred to me that people who similar paper dolls, usually also like historical wear. Therefore, I idea I would post about some of the sources I used when I was cartoon Flora outfits and then people could, armed with research guides (equally we say in the Library biz), draw their ain. And submit them to the Showcase and everyone would be happy… Especially Flora.
Regency, Federalist, Early on Democracy, Georgian, Empire, Napoleonic Era… The Terminology Confusion
So, here's the thing… The era from the tardily 1790s until the mid-1820s has a lot of names. Depending on the country you are in and the exact yr period, you could be dealing with Tardily Federalist (until 1801) or Early on Republic (which either goes until 1865 or until 1815 depending on your source) in America, the Regency (1811-1820) or Late Georgian Era (1714 to 1830) in England. or the Directoire (1795–1799) or Empire Menstruum (1800-1815) in French republic, or the Napoleonic era (19794-1814) in Italy. I tend to use the term Regency or the term Empire since nearly people associate the period with Jane Austen'south writings and she wrote in the Regency. I too have noticed that the term Empire has come to hateful a raised waist on whatsoever wearing apparel and I don't think information technology conjures to mind, for well-nigh people, the actual style I am referring too. I avoid the American terms as well, because America was never a leader in fashion trends in this period. There's likewise something annoying about having to caveat every-time I talk nigh the era, so I have called to go with which term I think about people know the best.
Is this a gross over generalization? Well… yep. Does it bother me? Non really.
You should, however, know all of these terms because they exercise get used to specify countries of origin for different styles. In the 45 odd fashion books lying around my house, the terms I have seen used the most are Regency, Empire, Napoleonic and Federalist. Your mileage may vary.
Books about Empire and Regency Fashion, Specifically…
A lot of way books mention the early part of the 19th century (call information technology Empire, Regency or Federalist, see to a higher place), but not very many focus on it exclusively. These are three of my favorites that exercise.
Napoleon & the Empire of Fashion: 1795-1815 by Cristina Barreto (ISBN:978-8857206509) was written to back-trail an Italian museum exhibit. I confess that I didn't buy information technology for the essays… (some of which lose something in translation, I recall), I bought it for the beautiful photos of style plates and clothing. Incredible photos. It's pretty pricy on the secondary market right at present, and then I'd recommend using your local library.
Fashion in the Fourth dimension of Jane Austen by Sarah-Jane Downing (ISBN: 978-0747807674) is a skinny footling book, but gives a fantastic overview of the vesture and manners of the period. I use it for the sections on material and color.
Ackermann's Costume Plates: Women'due south Fashions in England, 1818-1828 edited by Stella Blum (ISBN: 978-0486236902) is one of the few books of plate reprints that isn't grossly over priced. It's easy to detect on the secondary market and is by and large in blackness and white. It deals with the oftentimes ignored transition from Regency into Romantic. Each plate has some descriptive text which answer questions like… what is this dress supposed to be? Ackermann'southward Repository was THE manner periodical of its era.
Primary Sources for Empire and Regency Fashion History
Primary sources might be museums with costume collections or books published in the actual time period or fashion plates. All of these sources can be combined to exist excellent ways to detect what people wore in the early 19th century. The "play tricks" to finding materials is often to learn how to search museum holdings. Try words like "clothes" or "gown" or even "ballgown" and and so limit past years if you lot can. Some places have an avant-garde search function which allows you to put in a range of "creation" years into your search. Remember that every museum or library volition organize their collections a little differently. You can try some of the different period terms mentioned in a higher place to run across what you get as well.
Ackermann's Repository Series 1 and Ackermann's Repository Serial ii and 3 are digitized copies of the famous Ackermann'south Repository of Arts. It's an incredible resource, but sometimes the plates aren't included in the scans, as owners would sometimes cut them from the books or they would be cut by people to be sold separately. The descriptive texts are worth the price of admission however.
The mirror of the graces; or, The English lady's costume, kickoff published in 1811 was a etiquette book published by A Lady of Stardom. If you want to know what is proper to vesture when, this book volition tell you. You can buy a reprint, only it free online, then why bother?
Casey Fashion Plate Index consists fashion plates from LAPL and they have extensive Regency fashion plates holdings.
Victoria and Albert Museum is one of the largest costume collections in the world.
The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art is some other museum with ane of the largest costume collections in the world.
Fashion Plate Collection from the University of Washington contains Regency and Empire way plates, along with many others, information technology should be noted.
Websites
There's a lot of pretty shady fashion history on the cyberspace, just these are a few sites I find both actually useful and not poorly constructed or difficult to navigate. I take very low tolerance for sites that are hard to navigate.
Candice Hern's Regency Style Section is an excellent resources from a well respected romance novelist. I confess openly that I haven't read any of her novels, but her website is wonderful.
Jessamyn'southward Regency Costume Companion for Shoes is an excellent guide to… well.. shoes.
Regency Fashion Glossary might take some horrible background images, but it makes reading the primary source materials in a higher place a real breeze.
Undressing your Heroine and Undressing your Hero are great, since women and men'southward clothing of this period had a bunch of layers which are clearly described in these two excellent articles.
The Age of Nudity is an showroom from Kent Country University on regency dress. They besides have an excellent costume collection that is fun to tool around in when you have a few minutes.
This post could be subtitled: How to waste time looking at pretty dresses…
I used to have a Research Resources folio, but it never got updates and I know from my stats was basically ignored, merely I think tracking downwards this sort of stuff on the internet is fun (I am a librarian, what practise yous expect?), so here are a few museums which have strong costume collections that you can view online and that I use when I'm looking for enquiry sources.
Two things people should know:
- 1. The number of costume pieces which predate 1700 is limited, only non non-existent. I have tried to note when a museum has pre-18th century holdings.
2. These are in the social club which I bookmarked them and doesn't resemble any actual ranking of quality.
Okay, here we become….
Chicago History Museum
Contains something like 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum Costume Collection is one of the largest in the world. Not everything is available on line yet, just those which are accept beautiful quality photos and some include CT scans showing the interior structure of the garments (which is totally useless for paper dolling, but totally cool never the less.)
- Fashion Museum, Bathroom, U.K.
Browse a selection of objects from the Fashion Museum collection, or search the selection for a specific term using the search box or menus. The photo'southward aren't the best, but the Fashion Museum has some stuff that is hard to find elsewhere, including an excellent collection of regency dresses.
- Gallery of Costume, Manchester City Galleries
Searchable database which is wonderful, but the collection tin also exist browsed by costume themes such equally clothes for work or sports and includes some unusual pieces similar early archery dresses and information.
- Indianapolis Museum of Art- Collection Search
Okay, so I didn't know that Indianapolis had such a stellar costume collection until a few months ago, only they really do have a stellar collection. The colour photos are lovely, merely there is some variation in quality. Like a lot of collections in the U.s., the forcefulness of the material comes from the 19th century.
- Kent State Academy Museum: Online Catalog
Be sure to search the "online itemize" as well as check out the Costume Gallery. The Gallery contains only a few of the costume pieces owned past the Kent Land Museum, the remainder are in the catalog and the catalog contains several hundred grand pieces, though not all are costume related. I don't know why Kent State has such a strong collection, but they do and they are all lovely- particularly their 18th century pieces.
- The Kyoto Costume Found Digital Archives
The KCI Digital athenaeum is a wonderful source organized by date, just non a large i. If you tin discover a copy, their book Manner is incredible.
- The Los Angeles State Museum of Art
Searchable by engagement, blazon or region, the collection is massive. Unlike a lot of other collections, LACMA has a fair number of things that are pre-18th century.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's database covers the unabridged drove, including their costume materials. Recently, the Brooklyn City Museum gave the Met their costume collections and so in that location are some actually outstanding pieces from that collection available. Like LACMA, the Met is big enough to have pieces that predate the 18th century.
- Museum at FIT
Mostly 20th century, and mostly high fashion, the FIT'south collection is small-scale enough to browse, but large enough to be diverse. I hope they add more to it in the coming years, because I'm sure this only scratches the surface of what the school actually owns.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
Search the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to notice beautifully photographed costume pieces from around the world. Their Chinese fabric is specially strong, though their photos are a petty small.
- Victoria & Albert Museum
There is so much at the Five&A that it is a little overwhelming. Not every photograph is useful, but the huge amount of cloth is well worth information technology. V&A has some of the best pre-18th century materials available.
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The MFA owns pieces ranging from Center Eastern rugs to African kente cloths to haute couture fashions to American stays. Their collection is sprawling to say the least, simply incredibly useful.
This isn't isn't complete. I know there is material out there from other museums, but I wanted to showcase a few that I observe particularly useful. Did I miss anyone's favorites? Are there some I should know about? Do people observe these sorts of things useful?
I recently admitted to myself, which was hard to practice, that I collect costume history books. All the signs were there, of form…. a disturbingly large number of them… buying things because they "filled in a niche" in the collection… but information technology was nonetheless hard to admit it.
I suppose that is the problem with addiction.
Anyhow, I but bought The Relate of Western Costume: From the Aboriginal Earth to the Belatedly Twentieth Century by John Peacock (ISBN: 978-0500284476), considering the library at the University where I work has a copy, just only 1 and information technology's not a strong costume history collection to brainstorm with and I just couldn't bring myself to check out the only copy. I decided to leave it for the undergrads who demand it. Instead, I bought my ain.
The Chronicle of Western Costume: From the Ancient Globe to the Late Twentieth Century by John Peacock (ISBN: 978-0500284476) was originally published in hard encompass by Thames & Hudson, but came out in newspaper back ii years agone. I wasn't willing to shell out for the hardcover, since I don't think it's that good of a volume, but for less than xx bucks I was swayed into purchasing information technology.
Of the overviews of the Western Costume that endeavor to cover "near everything," I observe Peacock's The Relate of Western Costume: From the Ancient World to the Late Twentieth Century to be the nigh successful. I do non, however, retrieve his writing is up to the standard prepare by other writers (generally Laver and Nunn) in the field. In fact, there is very little text- this is basically a picture book, illustrated by Peacocks own illustrations done in watercolor.
The Chronicle of Western Costume: From the Aboriginal Earth to the Belatedly Twentieth Century has some bug though. The lack of sufficient annotations and a weak bibliography mean that I certainly wouldn't use it to write annihilation academic, simply for those moments when I need inspiration, or I am trying to remember what people wore in the 1660'south, it's clear concise images make up for textual failings for me when I'm cartoon paper dolls, only he wouldn't be my sole source, ever.
Besides, I'm cartoon newspaper dolls, not writing a PhD thesis… Give me a few more years before I worry about that thought.
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