Enjoy a special peek inside my book, Antique & Vintage Fashions, 1745-1979, a Collector’s Guide to see photos of real antique and vintage clothing, hats and accessories covered in the book. The book contains photos of only real clothing, hats and accessories for almost every year from the 1700s through 1979 accompanied by annual fashion trends lists documented and researched from fashion plates, catalogs and fashion periodicals for each year.
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Patterning a Gilded Age Bodice — Fashion Plate to Reality
I'm sure it's happened to most of us -- we see a really cool fashion plate, or movie costume, or extant dress, and wonder -- how the heck is that thing made? And then we embark on the trial and error process of figuring it out. So this is all about how I took my basic...
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