The Tailor and Cutter and London Art Journal: An Index of Cutting, Fashion and Trade 1890 Another tailoring book, but totally packed with diagrams of fantastic quality.
Category: fitting a fashionable shape
Ladies cutting made easy
Ladies cutting made easy 1885 Beautiful plates, including braid layouts.
record of fashion
The Weekly record of fashion 1882 Beautiful plates. The Monthly record of fashion, volume 7 1883 The Monthly record of fashion, volume 8 1883 The Monthly record of fashion, volume 9 1884
Cutting Out and Dressmaking
Cutting Out and Dressmaking 1879 And yet another drafting manual being slightly old fashioned.
The Art of Dressmaking
The Art of Dressmaking 1895 What a clever and distinct publication! The garments are photographed and are clearly scale miniatures.
The Complete Dressmaker for the Million
The Complete Dressmaker for the Million 1875 Once again very old fashioned shapes for the era.
A Concise Treatise on Ladies and Misses’ Tight-fitting Garments
A Concise Treatise on Ladies and Misses’ Tight-fitting Garments 1886 And the tradition of drafting books appearing several years older than pattern sketches. However this is great as this book deals with basically natural form shapes!
sylvia’s home journal
Sylvia’s Home Journal 1879 The full pattern is not available, but it is interesting to see the difference in how ready made patterns are drawn at this time compared to how drafting blocks are drawn. Drafting blocks are generally still very heavily 1860s in shape whiles these pattern sketches tend to show the very long…
another dress making book
How to dress well on a shilling a day: a ladies’guide to home dressmaking and millinery. Highly recommended for the text as it describes the order of sewing and how to. That paragraph on the “bulgarian fold” is really amazing! At least for coming out and stating that the “peacock” style train is impossible to…
princesse dress source!
The World of fashion and continental feuilletons (1879-1880) I have seen this in Patterns of Fashion 2 for years so it’s nice to be able to put it in context! There is also a skirt pattern that shows the top and tailing cutting layout but also the curved upper section for fitting over the hips!…