Making Vintage 1930s Clothes For Women

Author : Ciara Phipps
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785005022

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Making Vintage 1930s Clothes for Women by Ciara Phipps Pdf

From the elegant bias-cut gown to the light and liberating day dress, this book looks at and celebrates the historic silhouettes, fabric cuts and contextual history of 1930s clothing. Equipped with instructions, patterns and enchanting photos, it explores the history of 1930s fashion, and explains how to make a range of versatile thirties inspired garments. It takes ten examples of 1930s garments, ranging from a lingerie set to a heavy coat, to create a capsule collection. The patterns are taken from original 1930s garments, with each piece being carefully measured and the patterns scaled down accordingly. Step-by-step instructions for making each garment are complemented by close up photographs of historic details and decoration. A beautiful and practical book, it will inspire designers, dressmakers and lovers of vintage fashion who want to express themselves through timeless and elegant style. Explores the history and context of 1930s clothing styles, cuts and designers, to give a full understanding of how fabric was manipulated to create figure-hugging silhouettes. Superbly illustrated with 443 colour images and 29 patterns taken from original 1930s garments.

Author : Sarah Magill
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785003110

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Making Vintage 1940s Clothes for Women by Sarah Magill Pdf

The 1940s were an iconic period of women's dress history, with the familiar square shoulders, crepe tea dresses and seamed stockings paired with red lips, victory curls and head scarves. This book explains the period's sewing techniques and makes a range of 1940s outfits to recreate the look of those vintage years. With detailed step-by-step instruction and over 300 photographs, it captures the style of the time and explains the impact of wartime austerity on the cut and construction of women's dress. Contents include: historical context and details of government regulations of the time; instructions and patterns for recreating a range of women's clothes, including blouses, skirts, slacks, shirt frocks, evening dress and tea dresses; key techniques such as transfering pattern markings, making darts, fastenings and finishing touches; examples of how to complete the look with hairstyles, make-up, shoes and accessories. This new book will help you recreate the clothes and the vintage style of the 1940s 'make do' years, and will be of particular interest to costume designers, fashion designers and students, dress historians, historic revival and reenactment participants and home dressmakers with a general interest in vintage dress. Superbly illustrated with 331 photographs and patterns.

Author : Suzanne Rowland
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785003400

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Making Vintage 1920s Clothes for Women by Suzanne Rowland Pdf

The 'roaring twenties' were exciting years for women's fashion. The iconic image is of the young 'flapper' dancing the night away in a sparkling dress with fringes and tassels moving to the beat of the Jazz age. But, for all women in the post-war years of the 1920s, there was a new freedom in fashion as hemlines lifted and waistlines dropped. The simplified silhouette caused a boom in home dressmaking as women with basic sewing skills used tissue paper patterns to run up a new frock in the latest style. This practical book explains the background to these years and the trends in women's fashion, before introducing a range of garments that women would typically have worn. Suzanne Rowland gives a unique and detailed account of how to make vintage 1920s clothes for women based on the dress collections at the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Fifteen detailed projects for garments and accessories include a pair of fashionably daring beach pyjamas, the wedding dress of a bride from East Sussex, and a simple striped frock suitable for wearing at a British seaside resort. Each project includes a detailed description of the original garment with an accompanying illustration alongside photographs of the original pieces. Scaled patterns are included with a list of materials and equipment required. Step-by-step instructions and close-up photographs are given for each stage of the making process with information about the original techniques used. Superbly illustrated with 314 close-up colour photographs.

Author : Theresa Parker
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785004360

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Making Vintage 1950s Clothes for Women by Theresa Parker Pdf

Nothing epitomizes the look of the 1950s more for women than the hour-glass silhouette of the tightly fitted bodice and full skirt. This ubiquitous style - first introduced in 1947 with Dior's New Look - was so widely adopted by the mid-50s that it came to define the decade. This practical book introduces and explores the styles and construction techniques used in the 1950s. Step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to achieve a well-finished and authentic look using equipment easily obtainable at home. Chapters explain the processes from fabric selection, cutting out and preparation through to garment assembly using traditional techniques for creating the silhouette of the day. There are photographs and analysis of original pieces from private collections and museum archives and scaled patterns that have been standardized to a modern size 12 and can be graded up and down in size. With patterns and instructions for making your own bullet bra and girdle, each project includes a materials and equipment list and a section on specialist stockists and suppliers. Additional chapters include practical advice on measuring and fitting, and how to create the 1950s look. Aimed at students, teachers of costume, re-enactment societies and costume designers for TV, theatre and film and superbly illustrated with 300 colour photographs and 14 patterns.

Author : Julie Collins Brealey
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785008214

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Making Corsets by Julie Collins Brealey Pdf

Over the centuries, the corset has been a vital garment designed to support and shape the fashions of the day, and has progressed from being an undergarment to bold outerwear. This practical book explains the full process of making a corset with clear instruction and supporting photographs. Packed with information, it explores methods of creating modern corsets, whilst acknowledging the pioneering techniques of the past. Whatever your reason for creating a corset- be it for theatre- re-enactment or personal wear - this book is an invaluable guide to making a well-constructed, figure-flattering garment. Includes: a list of helpful tools, equipment and materials; step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to self-draft or personalize a commercially purchased corset pattern; techniques showing how to correct an array of fitting issues to produce a well-shaped corset; a selection of corset-making methods, illustrated with photographs and, finally, imaginative approaches to decorating and personalizing corsets. There are three main projects showing the development of the patterns and construction techniques to create gorgeous corsets.

Author : Julie Summers
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781782830979

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Fashion on the Ration by Julie Summers Pdf

In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in Europe: 'Hitler watched German siege of Warsaw. City in flames.' And, she continued, 'Had my wedding dress fitted. Lovely.' For Gladys Mason, and for thousands of women throughout the long years of the war, fashion was not simply a distraction, but a necessity - and one they weren't going to give up easily. In the face of bombings, conscription, rationing and ludicrous bureaucracy, they maintained a sense of elegance and style with determination and often astonishing ingenuity. From the young woman who avoided the dreaded 'forces bloomers' by making knickers from military-issue silk maps, to Vogue's indomitable editor Audrey Withers, who balanced lobbying government on behalf of her readers with driving lorries for the war effort, Julie Summers weaves together stories from ordinary lives and high society to provide a unique picture of life during the Second World War. As a nation went into uniform and women took on traditional male roles, clothing and beauty began to reflect changing social attitudes. For the first time, fashion was influenced not only by Hollywood and high society but by the demands of industrial production and the pressing need to 'make-do-and-mend'. Beautifully illustrated and full of gorgeous detail, Fashion on the Ration lifts the veil on a fascinating era in British fashion.

Author : Kathleen Mabel La Barre,Kay D. La Barre
Publisher : Barre Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCSC:32106018837408

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Reference Book of Women's Vintage Clothing, 1930-1939 by Kathleen Mabel La Barre,Kay D. La Barre Pdf

Author : G. A. Haslam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936049759

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Haslam System of Dresscutting -- Vintage Pattern Making for 1930s Fashions (Book of Draftings No. 15) by G. A. Haslam Pdf

Author : Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486797830

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A Decade of French Fashion, 1929-1938 by Mary Carolyn Waldrep Pdf

More than 100 selections of day and evening wear from full-color French catalogs produced for the international market document changes in fashion from the stock market crash to the dawn of WWII.

Author : Margaret C. Ralston
Publisher : Bramcost Publications
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Dressmaking
ISBN : 1934268852

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Dress Cutting by Margaret C. Ralston Pdf

Author : Ruth S. Countryman,Elizabeth Weiss Hopper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Design
ISBN : IND:30000094761438

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Women's Wear of the 1930's by Ruth S. Countryman,Elizabeth Weiss Hopper Pdf

A survey of women's patterns for the 1930's, from original garments, aimed at designers, costumers, historians and re-enactors, this book includes the patterns, sketches, notes and photographs of some original and reconstructed garments.

Author : Thomas John Bernard,Marcy Linton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781351380362

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Historical Pattern Archive by Thomas John Bernard,Marcy Linton Pdf

Historical Pattern Archive: Women’s Clothing 1837–1969 is the first book of its kind to capture such a wide range of women’s period patterns in one book, featuring 83 patterns spanning over a century of clothing. The book offers an accurate pattern of each garment on a 1/8" graph that can be used to scale the pattern up to its original size, drawings of each piece from multiple angles, and instructions about how the original garment was constructed and what materials were used. Capturing research and information about garments that would have otherwise stayed hidden or disappeared permanently due to age, wear, or poor storage conditions, this volume is designed to be a tool to preserve history through documenting vintage clothing. Written for historians, reenactors, costumer makers, and costume designers, Historical Pattern Archive will enable readers to study the history behind each piece, implement their original techniques, and recreate unique garments that are both beautiful and historically accurate.

Author : Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163561029X

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The One Hour Dress by Mary Brooks Picken Pdf

In 1924, author Mary Brooks Picken perfected her method of creating sixteen different dress styles while serving as Director of Instruction at the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences. Detailed, numbered illustrations take the reader through ten simple steps to creating an almost infinite variety of dresses.

Author : Ciara Phipps,Claire Reed
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785003134

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Making Vintage Wedding Dresses by Ciara Phipps,Claire Reed Pdf

From the heavily beaded tubular dress of the 1920s through to the body-skimming shift dress of the 1960s, this book looks at and celebrates the historic shapes, detailing and romance of vintage wedding gowns. Equipped with instructions, patterns and photos, it explores the history of wedding wear and explains how to make a vintage wedding gown inspired by historical fashions and trends. A beautiful and practical book, it will inspire everyone who wants to express themself through timeless and elegant styles. Step-by-step instructions are given for making each dress and are complemented by close-up photographs of historic details and decoration. This beautiful book will be of particular interest to wedding dress designers, seamstresses and brides, vintage enthusiasts of 1920s-60s and theatre designers. Beautifully illustrated with 105 colour close-up photographs of historic details and 21 patterns with step-by-step instructions.

Author : Suzanne Rowland
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785001031

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Making Edwardian Costumes for Women by Suzanne Rowland Pdf

Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and accessories that might have been worn by an Edwardian governess, a woman travelling on an ocean liner, a campaigning suffragette, or a wife overseeing a busy household in a large country house. It explains making sequences in full and advises in detail on how to give the garments a fine, authentic finish. Eleven detailed projects are included, based on the dress collections at Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Each project includes a detailed description of the original garment, with an accompanying illustration alongside photographs of the original pieces, and scaled patterns are included for all projects with a list of materials and equipment required. Includes step-by-step instructions with information about the original techniques used and close-up photographs of the making process, with further chapters on tools and equipment, fabrics, measurements and sizes, and how to wear Edwardian fashion with ideas on creating new outfits from the featured projects. Also includes advice on how to adapt garments to make them suitable for both wealthy, leisured women, and for their poorer counterparts. Aimed at costume makers, museums and re-enactors and beautifully illustrated with 200 colour photographs.