Go to books for garbing H/A and not so much

[Adriana Rose]

Ok guys I was thinking that we should share with the class our favorite books for garbing.

Fashion in Detail from the 17th to 18th centuries - Avril Hart and Susan North  ( this looks at the stitching details and so on)
Tudor Costume and Fashion - Herbert Norris ( covers from the begining of the Tudor family)
Elizabethan Costuming for the Years 1550-1580 - Janet Winter and Carolyn Savoy
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes - Katherine Strand Holkerboer ( this has costumes from ancient Egypt to the early 20th century.)
The Well Dress'd Peasant 16th century Flemish Workingwomans Dress- Drea Leed


Now add to the list if you want to, it will help alot of people too.

[operafantomet]

Tons of books should be mentioned, but I often find myself returning to these:


Moda a Firenze, the style of Eleonora di Toledo, and her influence (Roberta Orsi Landini and Bruna Niccoli)
http://www.mauropagliai.it/asp/sl.asp?id=3653

L'abito della Granduchessa nel Palazzo Reale di Pisa (Moira Brunori, Roberta O. Landini, Bruna Niccoli, Thessy S. Nichols etc)
(Couldn't find an online picture of this one, but it's a small book about the three extant dresses in Pisa)

Historical Fashion in Details, the 17th and 18th Centuries (Avril Hart and Susan North)
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Fashion-Detail-17th-Centuries/dp/0810966085

Fashioning Fashion, European dress in Detail, 1700-1915 (Sharon Sadako Takeda and Kaye Durland Spilker)
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/fashioning-fashion-european-dress-detail-1700–1915

Merchants, Princes and Painters, Silk fabrics in Italian and Northern European Paintings (Lisa Monnas)
http://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Princes-Painters-Paintings-1300-1550/dp/0300111177

And of course all the "Patterns of Fashion" books by Janet Arnold!


ETA: I forgot the lovely "Style and Splendour, The Wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway" (Anne Kjellberg and Susan North)!
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1333_styleandsplendour/
http://www.amazon.com/Style-Splendor-Wardrobe-Norway-1896-1938/dp/1851774548

[Lady Rebecca]

Not necessarily for Ren garb, but for costuming in general, my favorite books on my bookshelf:

Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion (both the 17th-18th c, and the 19th-20th c one)

Jean Hunnisett's Period Costumes for Stage and Screen (the two volumes with the similar dates as the above books)

The Tom Tierney Dover coloring books for inspiration (I think I have every single one besides Medieval)

The Cut of Women's Clothes - Norah Waugh

Frances Grimble's books - she has a whole bunch of them, but so far, I have The Voice of Fashion (early Edwardian), the Reconstruction one, and the mid-Bustle ones.

The Dover books containing fashion plates from La Mode Illustree and Godey's. I believe my favorite accessories book is also made by Dover, and spans from the 1850s-1940.

Costume Close-up by Linda Baumgarten