Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns

Book 2

Ranked #55 in Costume

Book Two in the V&A’s groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a 17th-century woman’s wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag, and a knife case. It also features a description of the stay-making process. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them. There are scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and metal thread... more

Similar Books

If you like Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns, check out these similar top-rated books:


Learn: What makes Shortform summaries the best in the world?