Patterns of Fashion 2 focuses on the eighty-year period preceding the Second World War. Beginning with a day dress from c. 1861-3 from the London Museum and ending with a 1938 Evening dress from the V&A costume historian and researcher Janet Arnold traces period and style and draws up patters from the original garments on grid paper with construction instructions. This is introduced by excerpts and reproductions from fashion magazines of the period.
Contains 226 black and white illustrations. 34 patterns.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333136072
Number of pages: 88
Weight: 561 g
Dimensions: 268 x 368 x 7 mm
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