Prefab Costumes: The Good, The Bad, the Benefit of an Expanded Audience.All I Want For Halloween is Victorian Monster Movies.One of the most notable fluctuations is in the size and detail of the bustle, which comes through both in the illustrations and Bradfield’s commentary.Ī fantastic and detailed resource for writers and researchers who want to use correct fashions and vocabulary. While many people view Victorian costume as all one style, there were a wide variety of fashions by year, just as we have today. Also particularly important for writers, Bradfield keeps styles separated by year. For researchers and writers Bradfield has created a one-stop-shop for vocabulary and description of period-correct dress for women (with a few nods to men’s fashion, too).
For costume design, the detailed diagrams and illustrations offer inspiration and creation considerations, giving creators options to pick and choose pieces from the whole Victorian era to match their need. The book is filled with illustrations, though, to support understanding – but anyone who is unsure what a hooped petticoat or a crinoline might be is advised to have Google open on the side.įor steampunk enthusiasts this book offers itself up to many uses. Instead Bradfield is speaking to people who already have an assumed base understanding in fashion/textiles, most notably the specific vocabulary used in the time periods covered. This non-fiction, period illustrated, detail oriented book is not aimed at a mass-market. Read If You Like: History of fashion, change in fashion over time Genre/Style: Nonfiction fashion history, illustrations/diagrams This book is something else entirely, original drawings, not copies of somebody else's.Age/Audience: Those in the “fashion know” or with a Google window open Authors who wish to draw pretty mannequins in historique dress and their own interpretations of old artworks always get them wrong. (I am on record as saying that author-drawn costume histories are rubbish. Between the patterns in Arnold's books and the detailed drawings of the finished garments in this book, accurate reproductions can be made. Because of that, this book is an excellent companion to Janet Arnold's books, in which many of the same dresses have carefully charted dress patterns. Many of the dresses in this book are famous in their own way, in the collections of England. Bradfield has closely, carefully studied them in person and has produced excellent, clear drawings of them, inside and out, showing details of construction and pattern, as well as supplemental material and accessories. These dresses are often too fragile to exhibit, or even photograph clearly, but Ms. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930, by Nancy Bradfield, is a unique, detailed, highly useful collection of drawings of historic clothing, almost entirely women's, drawn from specimens in British collections.
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