Historical Costume

Historical costume refers to dress, accessories, and/or fashion from a period prior to the writer's own time period.

It covers costume from an academic perspective in addition to the use of historical clothing and/or accessories in dramatic presentations and contemporary fashion.
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The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing sixteenth - century dress
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500
A History of Costume
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Creating Historical Clothes: Pattern Cutting from Tudor to Victorian Times
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515
Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Womens' Dress, 1500 - 1800
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365
In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion
Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film
Tudor Costume and Fashion

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. ...more
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:) "We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. ...more
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

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