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Everyday Crochet: Wearable Designs Just for You

19 reviews
Doris Chan

Potter Craft, 2007

Very wearable sweaters
I've started a couple of these sweaters, and the directions are clear. The gauge is nice as it is given both for the starting chain and the pattern stitch. The shell pattern seems to be very versatile, and I am working on size 40 that fits great so far. Nice book! Also, be sure to check the correction to "tall latte" that is on the author's web page.

How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia, Vol 1, Everyday Fashion

16 reviews
Hikaru Hayashi, Kimiko Morimoto

Graphic-Sha, 2003

The Best refence yet!
This is one book I ever wondered what I did without. It takes a complex idea, such as drawing clothing, and makes it simple, easy and clean. The book is a treasure chest of examples and ideas that can help you define and polish your outfits. Often I flip through random pages and point, and whatever my finger falls on I design an outfit from, using other elements from the book. As a previous ...

Everyday Fashions of the Fifties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Fashion)

5 reviews

Dover Publications, 2002

One of the best 50's books ever made
This is a primary source book that tells the prices and materials, which are very helpful to a costume designer. I also enjoy the book Fifties Forever, which is similar except it's color photos of actual vintage stuff (the color does help, but the Sears catalogue is still great without it).

Everyday Fashions of the Forties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs

16 reviews

Dover Publications, 1992

Required Reference
The decade-by-decade images from all the books in this series are, IMHO, required references for those interested in fashion and costume design in the 20th century.

Everyday Fashions of the Sixties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs

9 reviews

Dover Publications, 1998

Required Reference
The decade-by-decade images from all the books in this series are, IMHO, required references for those interested in fashion and costume design in the 20th century.

Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions: Transform Everyday Garments into Designer Originals

2 reviews
Eileen Roche

Krause Publications, 2006

A thoroughly 'user friendly' manual of projects and concepts
Eileen Roche is the founding editor of 'Designs in Machine Embroidery' and so brings a special expertise to "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions: Transform Everyday Garments Into Designer Originals". Enhanced with a profusion of colorful illustrations, as well as the inclusion of a bonus CD offering 30 original designs, "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions" focuses upon fashion ...

Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Costume & Textiles)

10 reviews

Dover Publications, 1986

Blissful brousing
Purchased this book soon after it was published in a Baltimore art museum. Modern Fashions and hairstyles today reveal absolute mediocrity. No style. No class. More to offend the eye than to please. Trousered females with short cropped hair and men whose hair is unkept wearing garments ill made. Swimsuits that leave nothing to the imagination worn by people who one just wishes were not ...

Everyday Fashions of the Twenties as Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs (Sears Catalogs)

7 reviews

Dover Publications, 1981

Roaring twenties revealed.
A great source of information on the cloths worn by ordinary people of this time period. Pity people don't dress like this anymore.

Everyday Fashions, 1909-1920, as Pictured in Sears Catalogs

5 reviews
JoAnne Olian

Dover Publications, 1995

Great Browsing!
I am totally hooked on this series and hope Dover continues it for 1899-1909 and the '50s and '60s, as well. Note in this volume that the brilliant folk at J. Peterman have copied some of the c1913 skirts in their mail order catalog (I now own two, and they're gorgeous). Thank you, Dover, and thank you, J. Peterman!

The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
John Styles

Yale University Press, 2008

The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, altered their diets. Pendulum clocks and Staffordshire pottery, the products of British manufacturing ingenuity, enriched their homes. But it was in their clothing that ordinary people enjoyed the greatest change in their material lives. This ...

Everyday Fashions of the 20th Century CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Tom Tierney

Dover Publications, 2003

Scrupulously researched, meticulously rendered collection spotlights multiple generations of a family for each decade of the twentieth century. Includes everything from ankle-length tennis outfits and men's formal wear of the 1910s to military outfits from both World Wars, high-fashion suits, dresses, and wedding finery spanning several decades. 116 full-color figures.

Life's Little Destruction Book: Everyday Rescue for Beauty, Fashion, Relationships, and Life

4 reviews
Charles S. Dane

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1992

Caution: Must have sense of humor.
I bought this book in 1994 when it first came out. It is so hilarious! If you want some good tips on how to be obnoxious or if you really want to get on somebody's nerves, then use this book as a guide. Read all the way through, from beginning to end for maximum-laughter-effect.

Vera Textiles: Add Color to Everyday Fashion

5 reviews
Jeanette Michalets, Katherine Michalets

Schiffer Publishing, 2006

excellent book on Vera
finally a book on Vera! this book is amazing if you are a Vera collector.

Sewing Lingerie That Fits: Stylish Underwear, Sleepwear and Loungewear for Everyday Living

9 reviews
Karen Morris

Taunton, 2001

Good for advanced sewers, beginners might have trouble
Beginners may find some of the instructions difficult to follow. I don't know where to find some of those lovely parts to make bras with--that's something I've long wanted to do, and previous attemps to make really good bras failed. I have taken their advice and used patterns and my own ideas for lingerie, but one day I want to draft my own French panty pattern. It takes a little measuring and ...

Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800: With Instructions and Patterns (Dover Books on Costume)

4 reviews
Merideth Wright

Dover Publications, 1992

Help the way I like it
I ordered this book a few weeks ago. I have been looking for books to help make costumes to take my grandchildren to reenactments, which has stimulated their intrest in history. This book is the most balanced book I have seen-in that it tells you what you want to know, why it was what it was, and it is easy to read and understand. It covers men and women's clothing, with illustrations and graft ...

Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
Tania Lewis

Peter Lang Publishing, 2008

What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy , the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on everyday life, directing ordinary people to see themselves as "projects" that can be "made over" through embracing an ethos of relentless self-improvement. Smart Living argues that they represent a new form of popular expertise sweeping the world. Written in a lively and ...

Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life (Dress, Body, Culture)
Marybeth C. Stalp

Berg Publishers, 2008

Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of gendered cultural production. In Quilting, sociologist and quilter Marybeth C. Stalp explores how and why women quilt. This close ethnographic study illustrates that women's lives can be transformed in often surprising ways by the activity and art of ...

How We Lived: Everyday Furniture, Fashions and Settings, 1880-1940 (Schiffer Book)
Peter Swift Seibert

Schiffer Publishing, 2003

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil lamps to electricity, and from an agricultural to an industrial-based economy. This extensively illustrated book looks at the homes, occupations, pastimes, and transportation of the times. Here are actual events and places where ...

Everyday Fashions of the 20th Century (Shire Library)
Avril Lansdell

Shire, 2008

The invention of photography in the nineteenth century provided a means of looking back into the not-too-distant past, and in this book the author makes use of this medium to share her interest in the clothes people wore. Covering the hundred years from 1900 to 1999, the book illustrates the clothes of 'ordinary' men, women and children through their own shnapshots and the work of local studio photographers.

Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch"

4 reviews
Christoph Weiditz

Dover Publications, 1994

Bird's Eye View of Early 16th Century Clothing
This is a basic book for those interested in history of costume in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. These are drawings of the clothing of the time made by an artist of the time. A range of people from a wide variety of walks of life and professions, as well as from many regions and countries, are presented. Gives an idea of what ordinary people wore, those who couldn't afford to have their ...

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