![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also might include on a page a little hand-drawn copy of a famous painting or fashion illustration that corresponds to the item she’s anatomized. Now and again, I’ll find in these books one of the dresses she’s drawn. Several are too frail or too soiled ever to be put on view.” However, it’s easy enough to apply information from her book to the beautiful color photographs in other books, like Jane Ashelford’s The Art of Dress, or Lucy Johnston’s Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail. Bradfield says "in detail," she means in detail.Īccording to her introduction, her “studies…are entirely from private collections only a mere handful have ever been exhibited or seen by the general public. It’s all text and drawings, fanatically detailed drawings in which every seam has been measured and noted, every button or hook accounted for… In short, when Ms. Its pages contain not a smidgen of color. ![]() It isn’t a gorgeous book, like the coffee-table size V&A or university press publications. When I’m working on a scene where the characters’ clothes are very important for one reason or another, the book I’m most likely to open first is Nancy Bradfield’s Costume in Detail 1730-1930. Today the spotlight is one of my most-frequently-consulted. Thanks to NHG Susan’s many enticing suggestions, my collection of costume books has become what some might call excessive. As my numerous posts from fashion magazines attest, I spend a lot of time these days studying and thinking about historic dress. ![]()
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