Managing Costume Collections

Louise Coffey-Webb

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Managing Costume Collections offers systematic approaches to organization, accessibility, record keeping, safety, and a host of other stewardship conc... Lees meer

The Sunbonnet

Rebecca Jumper Matheson

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Pervasive and fashionable throughout westward expansion in the United States, the sunbonnet endures as work dress in some regions and as icon just abo... Lees meer

Clothing and Textile Collections in the United States

Sally Queen, Vicki Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Clothing is the most personal expression of a culture. Objects of dress and adornment reveal so much about the individuals who wore them and the cultu... Lees meer

Dressing Modern Maternity

Kay Goldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Matern... Lees meer

Managing Costume Collections

Louise Coffey-Webb

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Managing Costume Collections offers systematic approaches to organization, accessibility, record keeping, safety, and a host of other stewardship conc... Lees meer

Dressing À La Turque

Kendra Van Cleave

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, th... Lees meer

Young Originals

Rebecca Jumper Matheson

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characte... Lees meer

Black Hair in a White World

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• A critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural h... Lees meer

Forbidden Fashions

Isabella Campagnol

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to rec... Lees meer

Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display... Lees meer

American Silk, 1830-1930

Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, ninetee... Lees meer

Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections

Kelly L Reddy-Best, Margaret T Ordoñez

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• A comprehensive guide to problematic 20th-century textiles, Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections provides a manual for the identification, car... Lees meer

Knock It Off!

Sara B Marcketti, Jean L Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• The intersection of women's fashion and big business in the US has always been a compelling study across social strata. The ready-to-wear apparel indu... Lees meer

Red, White, and Blue on the Runway

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Using eyewitness accounts as well as carefully preserved records, artifacts, and previously unpublished images, Red, White, and Blue on the Runway re-... Lees meer

M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker

François a de Garsault

• Hardcover | Engels | Costume Society of America
• Tens of thousands of shoemakers worked in eighteenth-century Paris and London, but if any wrote about their trade before M. de Garsault in his 1767 Ar... Lees meer