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This is a complete listing of all books currently available at Harper House - selections are listed alphabetically

FASHION DESIGN, 1850-1895 375 page picture book of fashion from 1850 through 1895.

QS-2238........$29.95

FASHIONS AND COSTUME FROM GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK: Including 8 Plates in Full Color, Stella Blum. Over 400 striking fashion designs from rare issues of the most influential women’s magazine of the period. Introduction and captions. 435 designs, 42 in full color. 136pp.

24841-0................$9.95

FASHION AND WOMEN’S ATTITUDES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY C. Willett Cunnington Enlivened with extracts from novels, correspondence from the columns of ladies’ magazines, fashion descriptions, and period advertisements of beauty aids, the volume traces changes in feminine dress and ideas decade by decade through the 1800s.

43190-8….....$14.95

FASHIONS OF A GILDED AGE - Volume 1 Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day Dresses 1877–1882 By Frances Grimble Fashions of the Gilded Age contains a complete wardrobe of authentic women’s styles from the late 1870s and early 1880s. This “natural form” silhouette, with its slender bodice, graceful drapery, and flowing train, is one of the most elegant of the 19th century.
The 343 patterns and 798 illustrations in this anthology are drawn from numerous rare original sources. Volume 1 includes patterns for corsets, bustles, lingerie, skirts, day bodices, evening bodices, overskirts, polonaises, and day dresses. Volume 2 focuses on evening dresses, ball gowns, wedding dresses, riding habits, bathing costumes, and outerwear. It also includes millinery, accessories of all types, and needlework trimmings created by such techniques as embroidery and crochet. Each pattern is accompanied by practical instructions, and often by an exquisite fashion plate. For even greater variety you can exchange most pattern components, such as bodices and overskirts, with those of other patterns. Although enthusiasts will want both volumes, each can be used independently. LAV-5.........$49.00

FASHIONS OF A GILDED AGE - Volume 2 Evening, Bridal, Sports, Outerwear, Accessories, and Dressmaking 1877–1882 By Frances Grimble Fashions of the Gilded Age contains a complete wardrobe of authentic women’s styles from the late 1870s and early 1880s. This “natural form” silhouette, with its slender bodice, graceful drapery, and flowing train, is one of the most elegant of the 19th century. The 343 patterns and 798 illustrations in this anthology are drawn from numerous rare original sources. Volume 1 includes patterns for corsets, bustles, lingerie, skirts, day bodices, evening bodices, overskirts, polonaises, and day dresses. Volume 2 focuses on evening dresses, ball gowns, wedding dresses, riding habits, bathing costumes, and outerwear. It also includes millinery, accessories of all types, and needlework trimmings created by such techniques as embroidery and crochet. Each pattern is accompanied by practical instructions, and often by an exquisite fashion plate. For even greater variety you can exchange most pattern components, such as bodices and overskirts, with those of other patterns. Although enthusiasts will want both volumes, each can be used independently.

LAV-6..........$49.00

FASHION OUTLINES, Margaret C. Ralston. The block pattern system as applied to women’s garments of the late 1920s. Supplemented with fashion plates of the period. Originally published in 1932 under the name “Dress Cutting”, it includes patterns for the jumper, sleeve, flared skirt, blouse, collars, berthas, godets, and dresses of various configurations. 80pp.

LA-LA67...........$16.00

FIBER BURN TEST, THE Choose Natural Fibers by Julie Hudson Characteristics of Various Fibers from the Weaver's Sketch Book by Rob Stone "How To Do A Fiber Burn Test"

SF-FBT........................$1.50

FOLK COSTUMES OF THE WORLD by Robert Harrold and Phyllida Legg The Folk costumes in this book are described fully in the text and introduced by a history of the development of folk costume. You will find 80 magnificent color plates depicting the costumes and their intricate details. 248 pages in softbound book

PP-1022........$20.00

FRENCH FASHIONS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA IN FULL COLOR: 120 Plates from the “Petit Courrier des Dames” 1830-34. This beautiful edition comprises 120 full color plates reprinted from rare issues of a French fashion periodical in which the exuberant romanticism of the day is fully evident. Devoted to “Paris fashions” largely for women, the plates depict a couture in which extraordinary attention was lavished on the upper half of the dress and the sleeves; innumerable variations of the open and closed types of bodices appeared and hats were often startling in size and color. Notes on historical and fashion background and captions based on the original French. 65pp.

26734-2.........$14.95

FROM THE NECK UP, Dreher. Touted as the most complete and unique book on hatmaking to date. The test is divided into fourteen lessons including design, pattern making, construction of felt, straw, and fabric-covered hats, turban draping, block making and renovating old hats. The second lesson is a complete listing of supplies needed to stock a professional workroom. All of the hatmaking techniques are explained step-by-step and are clearly illustrated by more than four hundred photographs and drawings. The book is further enhanced by sixty 1/4 inch scale historical and modern patterns for men and women.

FNU-100...............$30.00

FRENCH FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE TWENTIES, 634 Cuts from the La Vie Parisienne edited and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton Carefully selected from rare issues of the famed French periodical “La Vie Parisienne”, over 630 illustrations comprise a pictorial display of sophisticated couture embodying the seductive chic of the liberated woman.

25458-5..........$7.95

GARMENT PATTERNS FOR THE EDWARDIAN LADY, Mrs. F. E. Thompson. Re-publication of the 1905 edition of “La Mode Universelle #22” offering basic patterns through the “new and improved” simplified layout and cutting system. Pictures and patterns for a wide variety of garments. 64pp.

LA-LA74...............$16.00

GARMENT PATTERNS WITH INSTRUCTIONS: 1889, edited by Jules & Kathe Kliot. The middle of the era of the bustle, patterns for over 75 everyday garments for men, women and children including street costume, undergarments and more. Reprinted from The National Garment Cutter, a trade periodical. 144pp.

LA-LA36............$18.00

GIMBEL’S ILLUSTRATED 1915 FASHION CATALOG, Gimbel Brothers Gimbel’s 1915 Spring and Summer publication announced that it featured only “merchandise of the better class...... sold ‘over the counters’ in the Philadelphia and New York stores. Over 2,000 illustrations depict the latest in fashions for men, women and children. 224pp.

27938-3...............$14.95

GREAT WAR, THE; Styles and Patterns of the 1910s,

Shep. 230 pages full of patterns and illustrations for the styles of the 1910s.

SH-26...............$26.95

GREEK AND ROMAN FASHIONS Tom Tierney

This book is a coloring book but has 45 pages of wonderful illustrations of Greek and Roman fashions with dates.

41547-3………$3.50

HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL CUTTING, THE on the Centre Point System (1866), by Louis Devere. New revised edition. Tailoring men’s garments from the Mid-Victorian, US Civil War, Empire of Napoleon III period; all types of coats, jackets, trousers, breeches, waistcoats, gaiters, overcoats, capes, etc., plus a few boy’s and ladies garments for the 1850s, 60s and 70s. Also includes introductory notes on the changing fashions of the years. Illustrated with nearly 350 model patterns and diagrams. 236pp.

SH-03.............$19.50

HANDMAID TO THE ARTS - by a Lady. This book teaches the various manners of staining wood, ivory, bone, horn, alabaster, marble and other stones of various colors. Appropriate for use at 18th and 19th century events.

KK-1-7.................$10.00

HATS - Over the centuries, hat fashions have been subject to tremendous change. This picture book of 352 pages has illustrations from the Middle Ages through the Late Viictorian Era.

QS2319.....$19.95

HISTORIC COLONIAL FRENCH DRESS by Mary Moyars Johnson, Judy Forbes and Kathy Delaney A Guide to re-creating North American French clothing.

SF-CFD......................$19.95

Historical Costumes of England - 1066-1968 Written by Nancy Bradfield, a leading authority in her field, this book records the main changes in fashion over 900 years and provides details of colors and textiles used in each period. 200 pages soft bound

QS2181............$29.95

HISTORY OF CHILDREN'S COSTUME by Marion Sichel

Dividing the book into centuries, from the Early Britons to the 1950s, the author covers dress worn by girls and boys including headwear and hairstyles, footwear, and leg wear and accessories. Babies' wear is also included and a brief description of babies and children's toys gives added interest to a concise text, clearly illustrated with line drawings.

PP-D4024.................$22.00

HISTORY OF MEN’S COSTUME by Marion Sichel

Clothing reflects the spirit of the time and here the author traces the history of men's costume from its Greek and Roman origins to the 1930s.

PP-D4025.................$22.00

HISTORY OF WOMEN’S COSTUME by Marion Sichel

Here the author traces the trends of fashion from the soft drapery of ancient Greece and Roman Britain through the centuries of flowing gowns, close-fitting dresses, high waistlines, low waistlines, crinolines and bustles, small hats, extravagant headdresses, through the feminist movement when women copied the prevailing male fashion.

PP-D4026................$22.00

HISTORY OF UNDERCLOTHES, THE C. Willet and Phyllis Cunnington. Superb text and over 100 period illustrations survey various undergarments worn by the English over the past six centuries. “Most impressive scholarship...with much entertaining detail...will at once provide excellent reading and any number of useful and entertaining references.” The Times Literary Supplement (London). 272pp.

27124-2.............$13.95

HOW TO MAKE HISTORIC AMERICAN COSTUME by Mary Evans and William-Alan Landes. A wonderful source of costume reference and patterns, including Indians (Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest), Eskimos, the Colonists (Virginians, Carolinians, Puritans, Dutch, Quakers), Eighteenth Century and though the Civil War period. 180pp.

PP636-7..........$22.00

ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OF CIVIL WAR MILITARY GOODS., Schuyler, Hartley & Graham. Rare 1864 catalog depicts and describes hats, coats, trowsers, boots, tents, swords, insignias, arms and ammunition, horse “furniture”, and more, including uniform and dress regulations, tables of military pay. A wealth of information. 160pp.

24939-5............$10.95