Costume Book Recommendation Needed

[Manwariel]

This is kind of off-topic since it's for a different era but y'all are the experts. I'm about to leave for an internship as a seamstress. The film is set in Ohio, 1755. I want to get a book on the fashion of the period so I can familiarize myself with it. Do you know of any good ones?

[operafantomet]

If I remember correctly, the book "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and furniture in the 18th century" covers many areas of the 18th century, and it does it well! I've only browsed through the book once, when visiting a costume friend, but WOW.
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Liaisons-Furniture-Eighteenth-Metropolitan/dp/0300107145

In the link provided I notice Amazon suggest a lot of similar books, or related ones. Have a look as some of them too:
http://www.amazon.com/Eighteenth-Century-Clothing-Williamsburg-Decorative-Arts/dp/0879351098/ref=pd_sim_b_6
http://www.amazon.com/Seventeenth-Eighteenth-Century-Fashion-Detail-Avril/dp/1851775676/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Fashion-1660-1860-Janet-Arnold/dp/089676026X/ref=pd_sim_b_6
http://www.amazon.com/Costume-Detail-1730-1930-Nancy-Bradfield/dp/0896762173/ref=pd_sim_b_4
http://www.amazon.com/18th-Century-Embroidery-Techniques-Marsh/dp/1861084765/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Of course the Kyoto "Fashion" book is THE book to own if you have to choose, but you knew that already?

[gem]

Anea named most of the books I was going to say already (the Williamsburg one is especially good), but I'll also recommend:

Burnston, Sharon Ann: Fitting and Proper: 18th Century Clothing from the Collections of the Chester County Historical Society

Queen, Sally: Textiles for Colonial Clothing

Wright, Meredith: Everyday Dress of Rural America: 1783-1800 This is a little outside your period, but it covers the rural "west," (which would include Ohio), so it's probably worth looking at, as the outlying settlements tended to be less progressive with their fashions, and could conceivably be as much as thirty years out of date.

And one of my favorites, though its focus is English: Styles, John: The Dress of the People: Everyday Dress in Eighteenth Century England

[Cilean]

#1. Janet Arnold
PoF to 1580 and Pof 4 which deals with smocks and ruffs and has color!! If you have an additional $$$ pick up Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe ulock'd

#2. Tudor Tailor- Ninya and Jane's big lovely book

#3. Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza

#4. Jean Hunisett- Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800

#5. Herbert Norris- Tudor Costume and Fashion

#6. Juan De Alcega -Tailor's Pattern Book 1589


These are just a few of my favorites, and I suggest you pick them up!

Cilean

[operafantomet]

#3. Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza

Whereas it might be my favourite costume book in this world, it doesn't deal with Rococo fashion at all... So I don't think it's the best alternative in this context. But I definitely agree about Jean Hunnisett's book, I think it's underrated.

[Manwariel]

Thank you for the suggestions.

[Dayna]

Herbert Norris isn't the wonderous resource that we've been led to believe, or at least that was my take after attending a seminar on costume history where the instructor started with the earliest images and then walked through how they had been altered/improved/corrected into the images we see today.

The rest of them, definitely, since either they ARE from that time, or they worked directly with extant garments or they worked with people who worked directly with extant garments.