Costume in Detail: Women's Dress, 1730-1930 by Bradfield Nancy (1968-10-01) Hardcover

A unique, detailed, highly useful collection of drawings of historic clothing, almost entirely women's, drawn from specimens in British collections. Ms. Bradfield has closely, carefully studied them in person and has produced excellent, clear drawings of them, inside and out, showing details of construction and pattern, as well as supplemental material and accessories. Many of the dresses in this book are famous in their own way, in the collections of England. Because of that, this book is an excellent companion to Janet Arnold's books, in which many of the same dresses have carefully charted dress patterns. Between the patterns in Arnold's books and the detailed drawings of the finished garments in this book, accurate reproductions can be made. Shows exactly what clothes, including underclothes that characters in Jane Austen wore, with charming, detailed line drawings and notes.