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Clothing and dress -- Early works to 1800

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• Early works to 1800

• The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body: Expressing What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, 1631), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance (second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1955), by Grace Margaret Morton, contrib. by Carolyn Ruby, Bess Steele, and Mary E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes for You (second edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1954), by Mildred Graves Ryan and Velma Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes With Character (revised edition; Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., c1954), by Hazel Thompson Craig and Ola Day Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Color and Line in Dress (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, c1938), by Laurene Hempstead, illust. by Sara Whitney Olds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing: An Introductory College Course (Chicago and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1935), by Alpha Latzke and Beth Quinlan, ed. by Benjamin R. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing and Style: For Dressmakers, Milliners, Buyers, Designers, Students of Clothing, and Stylers (c1930), by William H. Dooley (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Art of Dressing Well: A Complete Guide to Economy, Style and Propriety of Costume (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1870), by S. Annie Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dress and Vice (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, n.d.), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
• Textiles and Costume Design (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1917), by Evelyn Peters Ellsworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Wisconsin
• Thrift Clothing (1918), by Anna Hedges Talbot (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Costume Design: Practical Suggestions for Those Interested in Art, Sewing, History and Literature (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920), by Edna Mann Shover (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes (London: E. Grant Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at Wisconsin)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)
• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Volkstrachten in den Ostseeprovinzen und in Setukesien (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1909), by Axel Olai Heikel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fashion Hints: Spring and Summer 1914 (New York: Lane Bryant, 1914), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Language of Fashion: A Dictionary and Digest of Fabric, Sewing and Dress (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, c1939), by Mary Brooks Picken and Mary Brooks Picken School (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Dessus du Panier (in French; 1914), by Maurice Jean Meyan and Jean Socquet, illust. by Zoë de Borelli Vranska, M. de Borelli Vranska, and G. de Colomès (page images at HathiTrust; US access only; some initial pages missing)

• History of British Costume, From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Eighteenth Century (third edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1881), by J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Letter to the Patentee Concerning the Medical Properties of the Fleecy Hosiery (sixth edition; London: Printed by W. Blackader, 1798), by William Buchan (page images at NIH)

• The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes (London: E. Grant Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at Wisconsin)
• The History of Costume (color plates, German text, English subtitles) (illustrated HTML at siue.edu)
• The Corset and the Crinoline: A Book of Modes and Costumes From Remote Periods to the Present Time (London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, ca. 1868), by William Barry Lord
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Tale of Tom Kitten (c1907), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Bulletin of the American Home Economics Association, by American Home Economics Association (partial serial archives)

• Woman's Dress, a Question of the Day (1894), by Lelia Ada Davis (page images at canadiana.org)

• Picturesque People: Being Groups from All Quarters of the Globe (London: W. M. Thompson, 1876), by William Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Textiles and Clothing Along the Silk Roads (Paris: UNESCO; Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2022), ed. by Feng Zhao and Marie-Louise Nosch (PDF with commentary at UNESCO)

• The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Sarah Brazil (PDF with commentary at wmich.edu)
• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Judy Kronenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Fur Craftsmanship: Improved Fur Techniques in All Peltries Commonly Used by the Practical Furrier (New York: Fur Craftsmanship Publishers, c1948), by Samuel Raphael, ed. by Henry W. Rosley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book (fourth edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Gravesend: G. J. Baynes, 1846), by Mrs. G. J. Baynes (PDF in the UK)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in Costume Design: Practical Suggestions for Those Interested in Art, Sewing, History and Literature (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920), by Edna Mann Shover (page images at Wisconsin)
• Fancy Dresses Described: or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls, by Ardern Holt, illust. by Lilian Young (page images at Wisconsin)
• Female Costumes, Historical, National, and Dramatic, in 200 Plates (London: Lacy, 1865), by Thomas Hailes Lacy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Male Costumes, Historical, National, and Dramatic, in 200 Plates (London: Lacy, 1868), by Thomas Hailes Lacy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1917), by Jane Fales (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Quaker: A Study in Costume (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1901), by Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman as Decoration: A Costume Book (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920), by Emily Burbank (page images at Wisconsin)
• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Oddshoefinder.com Shoe Wearer's Handbook (c2010), by Clare Barron and Kent Basson (Epub and Mobi at oddshoefinder.com)

• Advanced Fur Craftsmanship: Improved Fur Techniques in All Peltries Commonly Used by the Practical Furrier (New York: Fur Craftsmanship Publishers, c1948), by Samuel Raphael, ed. by Henry W. Rosley (page images at HathiTrust)

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