Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs

by Kristina Harris

Book Overview

Compelling pictorial archive of 264 vintage photographs, selected from rare tintypes and other authentic materials (1850s-1910), depict little girls in their mothers' hats and clothes, sisters wearing identical plaid dresses and button boots, a young man in an everyday suit and bowler hat, a boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and scores of others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486418146
• ISBN13: 9780486418148
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.4" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Victorian Fashion

A very interesting book showing how the Victorian fashions were, and I highly suggest this book for anyone interested in these styles.

Love this!

I love this, the quality is good, and has been useful in my alter art! I would highly recommend it!

For those interested in historic fashions

I liked this book because, although it is mostly studio portriats of Victorians, they are often in everyday dress. If you like old photographs, you like this book, and if your looking for some 'design' elements for historic costumes then you'll love this book.

Fantastic photos!

Costume resources from this period tend towards drawings from period magazines, and use highly stylized model forms. This great collection of pictures shows a wide range of people, in a fairly wide range of clothing types. The limitations of period phots are that the clothing is almost always the fanciest outfits the person owns, and does not reflect day to day wear. Other photos are clearly theatrical costume, but the author has clearly identified them as such, even where the oroginal information is missing. As with any black and white source, colors are left to your imagination, but the details of finsh and construction that can be gleaned from the photos makes this a necessary tool in researching clothing of this era. Teamed with a Harper's Bazaar drawing reference, and an accessory reference, and you are ready to start making your own victorian clothing!