This book provides a deep-dive into the dressmaking of the late Eighteenth Century.
By combining the author’s experience with drafting patterns from surviving eighteenth-century garments with fashion plates and period-correct reproduction methods this book offers a glimpse at what these vanished fashions actually looked like in real-life and provide the means for others to do the same.
Offers historical context on the socio-political, cultural, and economics factors behind the fashion revolution in the late eighteenth century.