Links and References

Some of my favorite links, including blogs, instructional articles, message boards and costuming websites as well as designers and vendors of patterns for purchase. Also see the bottom of the page for suggested books - many of which can be found via inter library loan.

Costuming / Historical Clothing Blogs:

• A Frolic Through Time
• A Most Peculiar Mademoiselle
• Adventures of a Costumer
• American Duchess
• Anna Worden Bauersmith's Blog
• By Gum, By Golly
• Dawn Luckham
• Diary of a Mantua Maker
• Dressing the 1840's
• Fashioning Beau Brummel 
• From Elizabeth's Needle
• Her Heart in History
• Historically Dressed
• Historikal Modiste
• It's All About the Dresses
• Katherine's Dress Site
• Kleidungum 1800
• Lady Carolyn
• Natalie Garbett
• The Compleatly Dressed Anachronist
• The Dreamstress
• Wearing History 

Message Boards:

• Sense and Sensibility Message Board
• The Sewing Academy
• Regency Society of America

General Websites: 

• Dressmaking Research
• The Great Pattern Review - thinking about making a garment from a specific pattern or pattern company? See the results other costumers have had and their thoughts!
• The Fashionable Past
• Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion
• Sharon Ann Burnston - At Home in the 18th Century
• Real Historical Patterns - Pre-1929 Original Patterns
• Mara Riley's Costume Page
• Vintage Connection
• Tudor Links
• The Ladies Book Of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness, 1860
• The Gentleman's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness, 1860
• The Costumer's Guide to Movie Costumes
• Antique Pattern Library
• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages

Resources for Purchased Patterns:

• Past Patterns: 1789-1940's
• Laughing Moon: Regency through Edwardian Eras 
• JP Ryan: 18th Century
• Kannik's Korner: Late 18th - Early 19th Century
• Sense and Sensibility: Women and Girls Patterns, Georgian through 1950's
• Anna Worden Bauersmith: Patterns from the Mid-19th Century
• Timely Tresses: Accurate headwear from the Regency through Victorian Eras
• Truly Victorian: Victorian-era Patterns for Women
• Elizabeth Stewart Clark: Dressmaking Guides and Patterns for Children from the Mid-19th Century

Suggested Books:  

• Corsets and Crinolines by Nora Waugh 
• The Cut of Women's Clothes by Nora Waugh
• The Cut of Men's Clothes by Nora Waugh
• Costume in Detail by Nancy Bradfield
• Napoleon and the Empire of Fashion by Christina Baretto
• The Medieval Tailor's Assistant by Sarah Thursfield
• Patterns of Fashion by Janet Arnold
• Women's Wear of the 1920's by Ruth S. Countryman and Elizabeth Weiss Hopper
• The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute; Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century by Taschen
• Costume Close-Up by Linda Baumgarten
• Whatever Shall I Wear? A Guide to Assembling A Woman's Basic 18th C. Wardrobe by Mara Riley
• Everyday Dress of Rural America 1783-1800 by Meredith Wright
• Dressed for the Photographer by Joan Severa
• Who Wore What? by Juanita Leisch