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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian
Author
Title
Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian / Sharon Sobel.
ISBN
9780240821337
0240821335
9780240821528
Publication
New York ; London : Focal Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : color illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Draping Period Costumes provides you with the skill set you need to break away from two-dimensional patterns to drape three dimensional costumes. The basics of draping are explained in precise detail, followed by step-by-step draping projects from multiple historical periods. More...Packed with photographs that illustrate every seam, pleat, and tuck, you'll never be lost with this comprehensive guide. -Includes information on measurements, necessary tools, and basic rules of draping -Covers costumes for both men and women - Discusses appropriate period under garments and fabric choices. Let expert draper Sharon Sobel teach you all you need to know to perfectly drape any period costume!"--Publisher.
Variant and related titles
Performance design archive online. OCLC KB.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 28, 2023
Series
The Focal Press costume topics series
Contents
Getting started : Setting up : The proper dress form ; Measurements ; Adapting the dress form ; Proper care of your dress form ; Draping basics : Tools and equipment ; Fabric ; Straight of grain ; Listen to what the fabric is telling you ; Start with a fitted sloper ; Transferring your pattern to paper
Early, unstructured garments : Ancient Greek costume : The Greek Doric chiton ; The Greek himation ; The Greek Doric peplos ; The Greek Ionic chiton ; The Greek diplas ; Roman costume : The Roman tunic ; The Roman toga ; Byzantine costume : The Byzantine tunic ; The Byzantine paludamentum ; Early Gothic costume : Early Gothic tunics ; Early Gothic overgarments
Cut and shaped to fit: the Gothic period : The man's padded doublet ; The man's fitted cotehardie ; The man's pleated jerkin ; The standing collar ; The woman's fitted gown (cote or kirtle) ; The unisex houppelande (A-line gown) ; Woman's high-waisted gown (Houppelane) with fitted bodice
The height of artificial silhouette : A woman's Elizabethan bodice ; A man's Elizabethan doublet with a padded peascod belly ; The man's Elizabethan jerkin
The men return to softness ... : Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) slashed doublet with a waist seam ; Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) doublet without a waist seam ; The birth of the coat and vest ; Draping a late-seventeenth-century coat
... While the women remain tightly corseted : Draping the Basque bodice ; Draping the mid-seventeenth-century bodice skirts ; Draping the late-seventeenth-century (Restoration) mantua
Introduction of tailoring to the man's costume : Draping an early-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping a mid-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an eighteenth-century vest (waistcoat)
Variety of silhouette in eighteenth-century women's costumes : Draping the robe a l'Anglaise ; Draping the robe a la Francaise or Watteau-backed gown ; Draping the sack (sacque) gown
Neoclassical elegance : Draping a chemise gown ; Draping an open robe or over gown ; Draping a double-breasted Spencer jacket
Revolutionary menswear : Draping a late-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century waistcoat ; Single-breasted waistcoat with collar cut-in-one with body ; Double-breasted waistcoat with shawl collar
Romantic womenswear : Draping an 1820s gown ; Draping an 1830s bodice ; Draping an 1840s bodice ; Draping a mid-nineteenth-century bodice
The Victorian gentleman : Draping the mid-nineteenth-century frock coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century morning coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century tail coat ; Draping the sack coat and the Norfolk jacket
The Victorian lady : Draping an 1860s jacket bodice ; A brief word about bustles ; Draping a caplet to be worn over a high bustle ; Draping a "mermaid" or "fishtail: gown ; Draping a low bustle gown.
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