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Bibliographic Information
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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian
- Author
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Sobel, Sharon, 1959-
- Publisher:
- Focal Press,
- Pub date:
- 2013.
- Description:
- ix, 211 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780240821337
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Item info:
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1 copy currently available - Tuckahoe Library.
- Number of holds:
- 0
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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian
Sobel, Sharon, 1959-
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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian
Sobel, Sharon, 1959-
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Personal Author:
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Sobel, Sharon, 1959-
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Title:
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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian / Sharon Sobel.
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Publication Info:
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New York : Focal Press, 2013.
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Physical descrip:
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ix, 211 pages : colored illustrations ; 25 cm
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Series:
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(The Focal Press costume topics series)
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General Note:
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Includes index.
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Contents:
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Getting started : Setting up : The proper dress form ; Measurements ; Adapting the dress form ; Proper care of your dress form ; Draping basics : Tools and equipment ; Fabric ; Straight of grain ; Listen to what the fabric is telling you ; Start with a fitted sloper ; Transferring your pattern to paper -- Early, unstructured garments : Ancient Greek costume : The Greek doric chiton ; The Greek himation ; The Greek doric peplos ; The Greek ionic chiton ; The Greek diplas ; Roman costume : The Roman tunic ; The Roman toga ; Byzantine costume : The Byzantine tunic ; The Byzantine paludamentum ; Early Gothic costume : Early Gothic tunic ; Early Gothic overgarments -- Cut and shaped to fit: the Gothic period : The man's padded doublet ; The man's fitted cotehardie ; The man's pleated jerkin ; The standing collar ; The woman's fitted gown (cote or kirtle) ; The unisex houppelande (A-line gown) ; Woman's high-waisted gown (Houppelane) with fitted bodice -- The height of artificial silhouette : A woman's Elizabethan bodice ; A man's Elizabethan doublet with a padded peascod belly ; The man's Elizabethan jerkin -- The men return to softness ... : Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) slashed doublet with a waist seam ; Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) doublet without a waist seam ; The birth of the coat and vest ; Draping a late-seventeenth-century coat -- ...While the women remain tightly corseted : Draping the Basque bodice ; Draping the mid-seventeenth-century bodice skirts ; Draping the late-seventeenth-century (restoration) mantua -- Introduction of tailoring to the man's costume : Draping an early-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping a mid-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an eighteenth-century vest (waistcoat) -- Variety of silhouette in eighteenth-century women's costumes : Draping the robe a l'Anglaise ; Draping the robe a la Francaise or Watteau-backed gown ; Draping the sack (sacque) gown -- Neoclassical elegance : Draping a chemise gown ; Draping an open robe or over gown ; Draping a double-breasted Spencer jacket -- Revolutionary menswear : Draping a late-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century waistcoat ; Single-breasted waistcoat with collar cut-in-one with body ; Double-breasted waistcoat with shawl collar -- Romantic womenswear : Draping an 1820s gown ; Draping an 1830s bodice ; Draping an 1840s bodice ; Draping a mid-nineteenth-century bodice -- The Victorian gentleman : Draping the mid-nineteenth-century frock coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century morning coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century tail coat ; Draping the sack coat and the Norfolk jacket -- The Victorian lady : Draping an 1860s jacket bodice ; A brief word about bustles ; Draping a caplet to be worn over a high bustle ; Draping a "mermaid" or "fishtail: gown ; Draping a low bustle gown.
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Held by:
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TUCKAHOE
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Subject term:
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Dressmaking.
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Subject term:
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Costume--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
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Subject term:
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Clothing and dress--Rome--History.
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Subject term:
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Clothing and dress--Greece--History.
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Subject term:
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Clothing and dress--Europe--History.
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Subject term:
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Dress forms.
