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This innovative and breathtakingly detailed book from the V&A
presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery, and
making instructions (including a knitting pattern and lacemaking)
for 15 garments and accessories from a 17th-century British woman's
wardrobe. Step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence and
scale patterns for each garment enable readers to accurately
reconstruct them. There are scale diagrams for making linen and
metal thread laces, silk braids, and embroidery designs. Multiple
photographs, close-up construction details, and X-ray photography
reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the number of layers,
and the stitches used inside. This first book in a new series takes
the physical examination and study of historical clothing to a new
depth and degree of detail, using the expertise of designers,
tailors, and makers from London's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17
patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century
woman's wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket,
a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes,
a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag and a knife
case. It also features a description of the stay-making process.
Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given
for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct
them. There are scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and
metal thread laces and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs of
the objects, close-up construction details and X-ray photography
reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of
layers and the stitches used inside.
"Quite simply the most fascinating record of a '[fashion] victim'
one could hope for." The Spectator This captivating study
reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents
in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the
Renaissance, it chronicles how style-conscious accountant Matthaus
Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes,
and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of
self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully
today as it did in the 16th century: one has to dress to impress,
and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their
sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of
portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been
comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These
exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes'
fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which
render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of
everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how
dress - seemingly both ephemeral and trivial - is a potent tool in
the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the
experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of
clothing to the aesthetics and everyday culture of the period.
Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful
commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of 16th-century dress
that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a
true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English
translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning
costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which
readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and
politically significant outfits.
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