C. Willett Cunnington

Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, footwear, etc. Based on contemporary sources. Indispensable for costume and fashion students. Bibliography.

A Comprehensive Guide with 1,117 Illustrations

English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century

Cecil Willett Cunnington

Remarkably thorough illustrated overview based on rare period photographs, periodicals, other contemporary sources. Description and information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, carriage costumes, evening dresses, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, footwear, underclothing, other apparel. 891 black-and-white line illustrations. 226 halftones. Bibliography. 3 glossaries.

This is a fabulous reference book on English women's clothing--it has details from every single year through the century. Of course, it spoils some of the fabulous costumes found in some of the renditions of books such as Pride and Prejudice when I see clothes from various years put into books that take places within a year even though the Bennets would have been able to afford to be in style or update their clothes.

English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century A Comprehensive Guide with 1,117 Illustrations

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