RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[spiralsheep]

What are you reading?

Comments

[thepasteldyke]

Aw too bad that there's not enough visuals, books about fashion really benefit from those. Costuming can be so interesting, same with fashion history in general, though I feel like I haven't read much of it in a while.

[drawnecromancy]

Yeah ! Especially considering it's apparently a reedition of older texts - texts that my costume history teacher has used in class, and those do include visuals ! So it's a... really weird choice, I think. And the little booklet in the middle with one illustration per era mentioned is just not enough considering the amount of things described :/

If you want I can probably dig in what I've read before to recommend you some books about costume history, I'm *almost* sure I have at least one or two with visuals that can be interesting :)

[spiralsheep]

I'm sure you both know this but for anyone else reading: wikipedia has increasing resources on the history of western European fashions which are easy to search by decade in addition to topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_decade

When you find something of interest then it's worth clicking through to wikisource for more related images too. :-)

[drawnecromancy]

I wasn't aware of that, actually ! That's going to be really useful. Thank you ~

[spiralsheep]

I got it slightly wrong and you need to click through to wikimedia commons (not wikisource), so for 1700-10:

By century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_century

By decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fashion_by_decade

Click through to 1700-1710 at wikimedia commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1700s_fashion

:-)

[drawnecromancy]

Ohh, right. Still good to know :) Thanks again!