Victorian Fashions Coloring Book

by Tom Tierney

These 45 ready-to-color line drawings feature costumes from the Victorian Age, carefully reproduced from authentic sources. Over their tightly laced corsets and billowing crinolines, the models wear sweeping skirts — some with lavishly festooned bustles — accented by dainty fans, gloves, bonnets, and parasols. A must for fashion historians and lovers of Victoriana. Captions.

Genres: Fashion, History, Colouring Books

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Tom Tierney 8 October 1928 - 12 July 2014) was a prolific creator of paper doll books. He was trained as an artist and worked as an illustrator for department stores before turning to paper dolls in the 1970s.

"Meticulously drawn and colored, and annotated with historical information, Mr. Tierney’s paper-doll books are not just for children — and some are not for children at all. His aim, he often said, was to contribute to the visual literature of costume history," noted his New York Times obituary.

"Pope John Paul II, shown a copy of Mr. Tierney’s book about him by a visitor to the Vatican, blessed it and asked where he might get one of his own."