Corsets

Corsets
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Publisher : Anova Books
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 1906388016
ISBN-13 : 9781906388010
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Corsets by : Jill Salen

Download or read book Corsets written by Jill Salen and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this fascinating collection showcases an astonishing range of period pieces, from the 1750 whale-boned corsets, through the invention of the sewing machine and mass-produced corsets of the 1850s to the makeshift corsets of World War I. Reflecting the changing fashions and attitudes of women throughout the centuries, the collection includes corsets for pregnancy, riding corsets for sportswomen and hard-wearing corsets for housemaids. There are even corsets for small children and their dolls. The book is packed with practical information on how to recreate these stunning period pieces for yourself. Each corset features an annotated pattern, a detailed drawing and close-up photography so historical detail can be captured accurately by the maker. A brief overview places the corset within its historical context and explains any features or alterations necessary for making up the patterns. For those new to dressmaking there are two step-by-step projects - one for a hand-stitched, pre-1850 corset and one for a post-1850 corset made using the sewing machine. There is also invaluable advice on a range of corset-making techniques, from cutting and fitting the patterns to adding historical detail. Information on lacing the corsets, inserting eyelets, gussets and split busks and on stitching and flossing is all included.

Calories and Corsets

Calories and Corsets
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781847654588
ISBN-13 : 1847654584
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Calories and Corsets by : Louise Foxcroft

Download or read book Calories and Corsets written by Louise Foxcroft and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to chewing every morsel hundreds of times to a tasteless pulp. This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.

The Basics of Corset Building

The Basics of Corset Building
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 9781429994279
ISBN-13 : 1429994274
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Basics of Corset Building by : Linda Sparks

Download or read book The Basics of Corset Building written by Linda Sparks and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of a corset as a blank canvas. Linda Sparks' The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners is a comprehensive guide to building your first corset, including: Section One: Tools and Materials for Corset Building Discusses the tools you'll need, plus types of steel, plastic, and textiles. Section Two: Building a Corset Everything you need to know about working with bones and busks, setting grommets and eyelets, and creating a beautifully finished corset. Section Three: Construction Techniques Covers all the steps, including making a modesty panel, making a mock-up, and building single layer, double layer, and fashion fabric corsets. Section Four: Alterations and Fit Discusses commercial corset patterns, as well as how to fit and style a corset for exactly the look you want.

Stays and Corsets

Stays and Corsets
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781317700746
ISBN-13 : 1317700740
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Stays and Corsets by : Mandy Barrington

Download or read book Stays and Corsets written by Mandy Barrington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and corsets.

Corsets and Crinolines

Corsets and Crinolines
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106010940614
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Corsets and Crinolines by : Norah Waugh

Download or read book Corsets and Crinolines written by Norah Waugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1954 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first of Miss Waugh's important books on historic costume, 'Corsets and crinolines,' set a new standard of accuracy and lively interest. Showing that the silhouette of women's dress has been in a state of continuous change, allied to economic and architectural evolution as well as changing ideas of sexual attractiveness, she itemizes three cycles in the last 400 years in which women's silhouette was blown up to the utmost limit, by artificial means, and then collapsed again to a long straight line. At these points the extremes were invariably considered absurdities and the corsets and hoops were discarded by their users, so that in actuality very few specimens from the earlier periods at least have come down to us. This book is a study of these shapes and how they were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Since paintings, prints and photographs of these props are not sufficient to convey their three-dimensional form, Miss Waugh has provided structural drawings and patterns, always made from existing specimens. Each period is enlivened by quotations from contemporary sources -- from letters, diaries, satiric poems, tailors' and dressmakers' bills, as well as journalists' accounts, often very amusing in themselves. These describe the garments and their under-structures and show how they were viewed by the people who saw them. Added are an index, a glossary of terms and materials, appendices on the repair and manufacture of corsets and crinolines, on whalebone and the whale fishery that supported it." --

Support and Seduction

Support and Seduction
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Publisher : Abradale Press
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924089527075
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Support and Seduction by : Béatrice Fontanel

Download or read book Support and Seduction written by Béatrice Fontanel and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughout the ages, women's breasts have been subjected to the endless whims of fashion. From the ancient Greeks to Mae West and Madonna, this light-hearted book charts the changing shapes of female beauty. The elegant and amusing images - including fashion drawings, paintings, photographs, and film stills - illustrate the often surprising history of the garments women have worn for support - and seduction.

Corsets

Corsets
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781408127551
ISBN-13 : 1408127555
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Corsets by : Velda Lauder

Download or read book Corsets written by Velda Lauder and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensuous, glamorous, flattering, alluring: a gorgeously presented book that explores corsets past and present.