Mary Fernald Bücher

This guide offers detailed instructions for crafting historically accurate costumes and clothing for theater productions and reenactments. It covers various historical periods, providing insights into fabric choices, construction techniques, and design elements specific to each era. With practical tips and illustrations, readers can learn how to create authentic garments that enhance performances and bring history to life. The book serves as a valuable resource for costume designers, actors, and history enthusiasts alike.

Offering a comprehensive resource for creating period costumes, this guide spans from the fifth-century Saxon tunics to late nineteenth-century bustle dresses. It features a wealth of authentic patterns, detailed information on sizes, materials, and sewing techniques. Simple diagrams accompany designs for various historical garments, including Elizabethan doublets, Restoration coats, and eighteenth-century gowns. Ideal for theatrical productions and historical reenactments, this richly illustrated work ensures accuracy and authenticity in costume creation.

This practical and informative guidebook is a "must-have" for anyone planning to create accurate period costumes for theatrical productions and historical reenactments. From short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800s, this profusely illustrated text contains a wealth of authentic patterns. Information on pattern sizes, materials required, and methods of sewing accompany simply drawn diagrams for Elizabethan doublets, capes, and trunks; a man's coat and vest from the Restoration period; a lady's bell-shaped gown of the eighteenth century; an early-nineteenth-century empire gown; a crinoline; and other wardrobe items.Diagrams have been carefully and accurately drawn to scale from working patterns, and detailed notes for making costumes include suggestions for the most suitable colors and textures to be used for costumes of particular historical periods. A final section includes diagrams and information for creating period headdresses, caps, and hoods. Students of costume design, home tailors, and community drama groups will welcome this carefully researched guide to fifteen centuries of English fashions.