Costume


Patterns of Fashion 3: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, C.1560-1620
Corsets and Crinolines
Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing sixteenth - century dress
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century
Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940
Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (World of Art)
20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment
The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900
A History of Costume (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
Costume Close Up: Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750-1790
The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer CrusieDon't Look Down by Jennifer CrusieShe Went All the Way by Meg CabotSizzle by Julie GarwoodWhat I Did for Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Fiction On The Film Set
96 books — 9 voters
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherAll About All About Eve by Sam Staggs
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
232 books — 38 voters

Shella City by Bader N. S.Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews DavidLee Miller in Fashion by Becky E. ConekinCause We Got Style! by Rosy OneEsprit by Douglas Tompkins
Clothes Are Out Of Style
102 books — 10 voters

August Wilhelm von Schlegel
But, as in sculpture, they were fond of dispensing as much as possible with dress, for the sake of exhibiting the more essential beauty of the figure; on the stage they would endeavour, from an opposite principle, to clothe as much as they could well do, both from a regard to decency, and because the actual forms of the body would not correspond sufficiently with the beauty of the countenance. They would also exhibit their divinities, which in sculpture we always observe either entirely naked, o ...more
August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

T.J. Klune
I am Lulu Deerdancer and I am twenty-nine years old and I am perfectly legal to enter this here homosexual establishment and partake in beverages and repetitive techno music.” “Because you both have been here before.” “Yes,” I said. “Hmm,” the bouncer said. Then Paul sneezed and his mustache flew off his face and landed on the cheek of the bouncer. The silence that followed was slightly awkward. “Huh,” Paul said. “I guess that’s easier than shaving. It’ll certainly revolutionize the facial hair ...more
T.J. Klune, The Queen & the Homo Jock King

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