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 Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewelry
Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewelry

 Art Deco Jewelry
Art Deco Jewelry

 

Victorian Jewellery (Dover)
Victorian Jewellery (Dover)

 

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Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties
Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties

Goth: Identity, Style, and Subculture

 Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of That Decadent Decade
Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of That Decadent Decade

 Fruits
Fruits
Japanese teen fashion that will give you ideas!

One of the most readable fashion books ever Elizabeth Ewing's History of 20th Century Fashion and now recently revised

 

The Fashion Book:Mini Edition
The Fashion Book:Mini Edition

 

 In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music
In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music

 Official eBay Guide: To Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just about Anything
Official eBay Guide: To Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just about Anything

 Classic Georgian Style
Classic Georgian Style
Translate the Georgian style into today's interiors with this book. 

Fashion Trends 2005 find out about the colours to look out for this year. See also my page Plus Sizes.

Look: Adventures in Pop and Rock Fashion
Look: Adventures in Pop and Rock Fashion

 

Discover your passion for fashion - Per Una is now online

 

Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1660-1860: Patterns of Fashion 1, Vol. 1
Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1660-1860: Patterns of Fashion 1, Vol. 1

Both of these volumes written by the master the late Janet Arnold are two of my all time favourite books for understanding the complexities of costume construction.

 

 20,000 Years of Fashion : The History of Costume and Personal Adornment
20,000 Years of Fashion : The History of Costume and Personal Adornment

A classic book beautifully illustrated.

 

Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture
Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture

 

 Engishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940: Patterns of Fashion, Vol. 2
Engishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940: Patterns of Fashion, Vol. 2

The sister book is where you will find patterns for the typical mid Victorian dress styles.  Great bustle patterns.

 

Click here for details how to buy my ebook Fashion Drawing Figure Templates at $9.95 by Pauline Weston Thomas.

My ebook, the first fashion template ebook on the web, has over 40 original female body outlines, a chapter on mounted fashion female storyboards, one on workboards of manipulated fabric samples, plus hints and tips and ideas for 80 Female Fashion Design Briefs as starting points.

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Fashion-Era.com looks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural and moral values. Homelife and politics also contribute to lifestyle trends, which in turn influence the clothes we wear. These are the changes that make any era of society special in relation to the study of the costume of a period.

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