My Top 8 Picks! Books About 18th Century Fashion

Описание: Whether you’re new to 18th century fashion or have been studying it for decades, here are 8 books I highly recommend, along with links on where they can be found if you’re buying from the UK.

These do NOT include books containing patterns or detailed construction notes – those will be discussed next week when we talk about patterns! Please note also my own area of research focuses on some big black holes in what’s known about women’s clothing parts of the British Isles, and this list of specific books represents the backbone of existing scholarship for this part of the world.

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01:49 How to identify 18th century styles - lots of visuals!
05:30 The contexts of 18th century dress - English society and the roles of clothing
11:47 Patterns and prints in cottons - primary sources to train your eye!

In order of discussion:

• Lydia Edwards “How to Read a Dress” (Bloomsbury, 2017) https://amzn.to/35iWcD9
• Aileen Ribeiro “A Visual History of Costume – the Eighteenth Century” (Batsford, 1983) https://amzn.to/35iWcD9
• Aileen Ribeiro “The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820” (Yale University Press, 1995) https://amzn.to/35lz0nV

• Anne Buck “Dress in Eighteenth-Century England” (Batsford, 1979) https://amzn.to/3m4QtXy
• John Styles “The Dress of the People” (Yale University Press, 2007) https://amzn.to/3m4QtXy
• Nancy Bradford “Costume In Detail 1730-1930” (Costume & Fashion Press, 1981) https://amzn.to/3ieEmFk

• John Styles “Threads of Feeling – the London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770” (The Foundling Museum, 2010) https://amzn.to/3ichI0f
• Barbara Johnson’s Album of Fashions and Fabrics (Thames & Hudson, 1987) https://amzn.to/33bYelR

My ongoing, personal reading list continues to grow and evolve and can be seen on my website here: https://timesmith-dressmaker.co.uk/re...

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