Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women’s unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.
The book consists of scaled patterns directly based on original French, German and English fashion plates drafted according to period-accurate shapes. The patterns encompass the full look presented in each fashion plate from garments to accessories. These are accompanied by a color image of the corresponding fashion plate, straightforward, illustrated directions for recreating the outfits, information on the material used and modelled reproductions of each plate to demonstrate what they would look like in "real life". The book focuses on unique styles often seen in fashion plates but rarely – if ever – patterned before, making this a fresh and exciting yet historically accurate take on late eighteenth-century fashion.
Stitching La Mode significantly expands the understanding of transitional fashions from the late eighteenth century with concrete, physical examples of styles, perfectly suited for costume technicians and makers, costume historians and hobby costumers and re-enactors.
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women’s unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.
1. Introduction Section 1: Historical Context and How-Tos
2. Fashion,
Fashion Plates and Dressmaking, 1785-1795
3. Enlarging and Altering the
Patterns
4. Master Sewing Instructions Section 2: Fashion Plate Patterns and
Recreations
5. 1785 Caraco Jacket & Petticoat
6. 1786 Robe à la Turque &
Petticoat
7. 1787 Robe à lAnglaise & Petticoat
8. 1788 Robe à lAnglaise &
Petticoat
9. 1789 Chemise Gown Variation
10. 1790 Chemise Gown
11. 1790
Jacket & Petticoat
12. 1791 Lévite Gown & Petticoat
13. 1792 Robe à
lAnglaise & Petticoat
14. 1793 Chemise Gown Variation & Petticoat
15. 1794
Open-Front Round Gown
16. 1794 Drop-Front Round Gown & Open Robe
17. 1795
Riding Habit
Carolyn Dowdell is an academic dress historian with a masters degree from the University of Alberta, Canada and doctorate from Queens University, Canada in the field of Dress History and Material Culture Studies. She is a social media personality and content developer under the brand name "The Modern Mantua Maker" (@modernmantuamaker).
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