(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best fashion books

I'm not SCA either, I'm an English early medieval re-enactor, but dodgy shoes seem to be a constant in all forms of recreational medievalism. I've been making shoes and other period leatherwork for about 15 years. A good shoemaker will always be popular, but personally I only make them for family and a couple of close friends, because they are about my least favourite bit of leatherwork to actually do. If you enjoy shoemaking, then even if you're "half-skilled" now, you'll get enough work that you'll soon be a master cobbler.

Please bear in mind that everything below is written from the perspective of someone who thinks history ended at about 2pm on 14 October 1066, Haroldus Rex interfectus est and everything after that is just modern :).

Be prepared to waste a lot of leather, especially when you're starting out. Remember that most people have slightly different sized feet, a left shoe is not simply a mirror image of a right shoe, especially in period shoes, always get measurements/patterns for both feet. A last is not a model of a foot, it is a model of the inside of a shoe. Learn to sew really well, I always use saddle stitch but it's not essential, and knot the thread every 4-5 stitches to minimise the risk of the shoe falling apart as soon as the thread wears through, which it will. Use the best quality waxed linen thread you can get, I'd compromise on quality of leather before buying cheap thread. The leather probably doesn't need to be as thick as you think, this may just be me, but the number of shoes I've made and then realised they would have been better, and easier to make, with slightly thinner leather. A shoe that is slightly too small for comfort can often be stretched to fit by putting it on and sitting with your foot in a bowl of water for a couple of hours.

Finally, a lot of people, especially the beer and bash brigade, will tell you medieval shoes don't have enough grip and want modern soles. Don't give in to them, wet grass on a steep slope can be challenging, but apart from that I've never had any real difficulty walking, running or fighting in authentic shoes. There are special cases, such as people with disabilities or people planning on walking a very long way on modern road surfaces, but in general medieval shoes are as comfortable and effective as modern shoes. If you really want to improve the grip, hobnails or strips of leather glued on to make a tread are reasonable compromises.

Resources:

The most comprehensive online resource: http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
I printed out the entire site several years ago, and still refer to it frequently.

Two pages with shoes good for novices to make:

A nice guide to making simple early medieval shoes:
http://dineidyn.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-beginners-guide-to-turnshoes.pdf

Very very simple, but authentic early medieval shoes (without hurrying I can knock out a shoe in 2 hours using this method), a bit wasteful of leather but the offcuts can used for toggles, etc:
http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/authenticity/basickit/basickit15.html#frontseam

From the same site, a guide to early medieval shoe fastenings:
http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/authenticity/basickit/annex11.html
(Ignore what it says about bone/horn/wood toggles, there is virtually no evidence for them in the archaeological record. Admittedly they wouldn't survive well in the ground, but their total absence, as compared to other small items of the same materials, suggests they weren't used. The leather toggles it shows are far more likely to be authentic.)

This looks like a possibly useful Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/periodshoes/?fref=ts
I only found it while I was writing this, but it looks promising.

If you're interested in early medieval shoes this Facebook group may be useful (both for research and selling):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/624164817603195/?fref=ts

A word of warning about Facebook groups - be wary of posting to groups that are not explicitly SCA-oriented. The SCA has a very different approach to authenticity to that of most European re-enactors, and SCAdians can be subjected to very unpleasant levels of mockery and vitriol.

Printed resources:

If you're seriously interested in historical shoes, this is just about essential:
http://www.amazon.com/Archaeological-Footwear-Development-Patterns-Prehistory/dp/9089321179/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324590&sr=1-1
Vast selection of shoes, with (very small) cutting patterns.

This is also very good, has a different selection of shoes. I would strongly recommend both books but if you have to choose this would be my second choice:
http://www.amazon.com/Stepping-Through-Time-Archaeological-Prehistoric/dp/9089320024/ref=la_B001KCUT80_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324595&sr=1-2

Much less comprehensive, and less useful for reconstructing, but well worth a read and half the price of the other two:
http://www.amazon.com/Shoes-Pattens-Medieval-Excavations-London/dp/1843832380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324583&sr=1-1

Okay. Here's my outside shot: The new album is called Sunflower.

It works as an album title; colorful, evocative, and bright. It matches thematically with the transformation between Reputation and the present - "I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your daisy." They grow very tall and they're blonde on top, just like Taylor. My first thought along those lines was that it might be somebody's nickname for her, so I started running with it.

The dress she wears for the first part of the video has a large sunflower (or sunflower-esque bloom) at the center of the skirt. There's a vase of them on the table in her apartment's entryway, a great easter egg. (There's also a vase of non-sunflower yellow blooms on the table near the window, underneath a painting of a cat with yellow flowers.) Later in the video, Brendon's suit is spangled with a liberal helping of them - or, if not sunflowers, then sunflower-esque yellow blooms.

As she sings "one of these things is not like the others," Taylor comes center-frame wearing a yellow suit. Apart from a couple of pocket squares and ties, the color yellow is reserved only for Taylor and Brendon throughout the video.

If this were true, it'd need more supporting evidence than just the video, and I think that exists as well. Taylor's first reveal for this new era was the Elle cover, where she was dressed in an explosively-bright yellow gown - the background of which makes the folds of the dress look like a yellow bloom. The infamous five-hole fence picture has a yellow tint and was marked with a yellow heart emoji. Even the picture she took in Australia on November 10th has her looking to the left at what might be yellow blossoms. (I'm not above going full Charlie board on this.)

I think that it becomes a perfect overall symbol of rebirth and growth. What better antidote is there to dark times than the sun?

Edit: Almost forgot one. The top book on her table under the cool chicks pictures is Cartier in the 20th Century, but I thought it was more interesting for the catchy color. She sings all about the colors of the rainbow in ME!, and these books are red, pink, and orange, in that order. The next color in the spectrum would be yellow.

Edit 2: Okay, I think I'm really onto something here. The video even starts with the butterfly trying to get through the window to Taylor, and she's been wearing them all over the place ever since the teasers started.

Edit 3: Pretty sure the flowers Brendon tries to give to Taylor are pink sunflowers.

My several month old list: Fashion Podcasts and Interviews

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I've been collecting a few podcasts to listen to in my spare time and came across an enormous amount when searching both on /r/malefashionadvice, /r/malefashion and /r/femalefashionadvice.

I thought it'd be nice to share a few I've found which were interesting and which other people can enjoy.

I know my fashion interests can definitely skew to the boring, so if you have any more suggestions please comment below!

Podcasts & Youtube:

• Dressed podcast run by two fashion historians this weekly podcast explores the incredibly rich and complex history behind the clothes we wear.
  
  
• Stuff you Missed in History Class which is part of the HowStuffWorks podcast network has some great episodes on fashion history, Marie-Antoinette and the first fashion designer Rose Betin. Search 'fashion' for some good hits.
  
  
• The Ultimate Fashion History is run by another fashion historian who produces great original content.
  
  
• Loose Threads this fashion intelligence and analyst company also has a nice podcast which talks about power suiting to product manufacturer.
  
  
• Unravel is done by three alumni of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) graduate program who take a fresh and more modern approach to their topics. They go in-depth with their podcasts and have nice light hearted tone.
  
  
• The Talks has a wealth of good interviews with people in all walks of life, and there’s a good chunk of interviews of people in fashion. Here are a few selected ones: Tom Ford, Rick Owens, Thom Browne and Craig Green.
  
  
• Blamo! is a podcast by Jeremy Kirkland who talks to various people in the fashion world, from designers to GQ editors to street photographers. Notable episodes include: Robert Geller and Lawrence Schlossman of Four Pins fame.
  
  
• Business of Fashion has their own podcast section which takes fashion from a business perspective. The website as a whole is great. Original articles are informative and they have an indispensible Daily Digest worth going through. Site has a soft paywall.
  
  

  Others:
  

  
  

• Racked even though they have a lot of fluff articles and have to pull a lot of clickbait stunts the writers over at Racked occasionally write some really insightful articles on topics about garments, the industry or the politics of clothing and fashion.
  
  
• Google: We Wear Culture has a project centered around 'Fashion' titled "the stories behind what we wear". It has a lot of fascinating text and articles accompanied with beautiful images. They collaborate with notable several museums and brands.
  
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  Sources and thanks to:
  
  
• Early Morning Thursdays: Podcasts and Interviews by /u/setfiretoflames
  
• /r/AskHistorians flaired users' pages and sidebar
  
• An amazing amount of discussions and recommendations on /r/malefashionadvice, /r/malefashion and /r/femalefashionadvice
  
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  /u/setfiretoflames booklist Well Regarded Fashion Books: A Community List
  
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  Hey, want to get a nice coffee table book? Let’s make a list of some of our favorites.
  
  Note: I don’t own all of these, some are off friends’ recommendations, and some are for books that haven’t even come out yet. They are mostly in Amazon links for ease of use, but none of the links are affiliate ones (and any that are found in the thread will be removed).
  
  Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
  
  Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
  
  Ann Demeulemeester
  
  Blue Blooded
  
  BEAMS: Beyond Tokyo
  
  The Carhartt WIP Archives
  
  Dries Van Noten 1-100
  
  Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment
  
  Maison Martin Margiela
  
  Margiela: The Hermès Years
  
  Martin Margiela: The Women’s Collections 1989-2009
  
  Rei Kawakubo
  
  Rick Owens
  
  Rick Owens: Furniture
  
  Take Ivy
  
  Undercover
  
  Vintage Menswear
  
  Yamamoto & Yohji
  
  Yohji Yamamoto

Definitely. Pressing is part of the process and some of the problem may be that you haven't pressed so you can't see everything that's happening.

I know of many resources. Some of the books are expensive or hard to find. You may be able to borrow them from a library.

Online

• Cutter and Tailor: Forum created by a professional tailor. Read the section for people who are teaching themselves. There is a bibliography.
  
  
• The University of Fashion. Right now, only women's wear, but it has good tutorials prepared by professionals.
  
  
• Bob Maldonado's online shirtmaking class. I like the video on sewing a shirt sleeve placket which is free. I haven't done the course, but have an internet acquaintance who has and his work looks great. You can download the video lessons.
  
  
  
  Books
  
  
• Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket (geared to women's wear, but it has very good general instructions on different tailoring styles and nice photos)
  
  
• Classic Tailoring Techniques for Menswear: A Construction Guide 2nd Edition
  
  
• Hand stitches for the fine custom tailored garment
  
  
  
• Shirtmaking: Developing Skills For Fine Sewing
  
  
• The Shirtmaking Workbook: Pattern, Design, and Construction Resources
  Some Japanese men's pattern books can be found here and here.
  
  For Inspiration
  
  
• Tailor Rory Duffy's videos on making a suit.
  
• The Notebook, a blog by the apprentices at Anderson and Sheppard, an esteemed Savile Row tailor.
  
  I can't make a recommendation for menswear patternmaking books. I plan to take a class this spring and the teacher told me he was going to follow the basic format of a particular book, but he noted that the book had mistakes.

Previously tailors’ guilds constructed all fitted, outer garments. Unfitted items, like shirts or shifts, were not regulated under this. Seamstresses in Paris were considered a free trade, for example, and could legally make things not claimed by the Tailors. This became an area of contention with the popularization of the Mantua gown in the late 17th century. While it was an outer garment, it was not fitted and tailored. Instead, the fabric was draped over the body and pinned, pleated, and tucked to the body. Tailors work from measure and pattern, so this is a very different process, giving a major argument of these being separate trades.

The guild presented by the seamstresses was limited to only making clothing for women and children, and they could not hire male workers. While sewing was not gendered at that time, many of the other trades were male dominated and this was considered an acceptable female-based career path to create. The idea was that this would keep women from trying to push their way into the Tailoring trade instead. It was a valid concern because it did happen in quite a few places, like Caen. After the creation of the Seamstresses guild in France in 1675, numerous rules were placed upon the seamstresses within the Tailoring trade, most of which were ignored over time. For example, in 1694 French seamstresses could not hire assistants other than their own children, but by 1712 that was changed.

Some of the argument for the separate guild was that it was highly restricted and competing against a well-established trade, which was not. The Tailors still very much had the upper hand. Some still had a problem with this arrangement, such as the English Tailors’ guilds who did fight back against the formation of the Mantua Makers, petitioning Parliament in 1702, but rather unsuccessfully. It may have been in part due to the frequency which the Master tailors petitioned Parliament on other topics. Between 1702 and 1720 they brought up issue with Button-sellers, the wearing of cloth and stuff buttons (wools), and importing foreign buttons, just to note some. Other tailors tried to take advantage of the female market instead, bringing them in to work and charging guild fees, but refusing to include them in any of the actual guild administration. In Caen the women pushed back and were allowed to create their own guild administration.

Interestingly enough, the separation of the sexes which kept women from truly being involved in the Tailoring trade played a big role in keeping the Mantua Makers trade alive later. Mantua gowns were thought by some to be nothing more than a fad, but they instead developed into new gown styles using the same construction methods. Their business was therefore assured and as the 18th century continued on the public perception changed, viewing the making of these types of women’s and children’s garments to be a distinctly feminine trade. Note that tailors still constructed women’s stays, riding habits, and court gowns. These all still required the process of measure and pattern. By 1760 this viewpoint of female trades had progressed enough that keeping men out of female occupations was a popular debate topic (the London Courant has an article on the topic that year). The idea of a Man Milliner or Male Mantua-maker was humorous enough to be included as a character in plays and satire.

Basically, with female seamstresses trying to push their way into the established trade of the Tailors, the best solution (for most) was to give them a restricted, watered down version for their own guild. Some thought it wouldn’t last long, others saw it as the easiest way to control the group, or at the least the lesser of two evils. In reality the women had enough ingenuity and drive to not just make their businesses succeed, but began to change the entire public perception of sewing as a gendered occupation.

Sources:

Women in Business, 1700-1850 by Nicola Jane Phillips

The Return of the Guilds by Lucassen, De Moor, and Luiten van Zanden

Women and Business Since 1500 by Béatrice Craig

The Dress of the People by John Styles

Select Documents Illustrating the History of Trade Unionism by Frank Galton

First of all quit apologizing, you do your best with what you have. It's not about the money here, you're a great contributor of this sub!! Hopefully this isn't too much of a stretch, and I post this since I think you have prime, This coloring book. As a child I colored all the time. We were very poor so it's about all we had some days for entertainment. We would have coloring contests and make an adult choose the winner!! If was so fun! Anyway now as an adult, I've found these amazing coloring books on Amazon and I can't get enough of them. The kids and I color all the time now, it gives us time to chat and hang out together while having fun too so it reminds me of my childhood. Even my big kids love it, 21 & 17!! :)

You definitely don't need all of them. I did some research (aka Amazon preview and I tried to find youtube reviews/review with pictures), so there is no total dud.

I think Make-up Masterclass, Makeup Manual, Makeup Makeovers in 5, 10, 15 Minutes, Makeup Makeovers Beauty Bible and Plastic Surgery Without the Surgery The Miracle of Makeup Techniques share a similar and more "natural beauty enhanced" aesthetic and are kind of repetitive.

The Kevyn Aucoin book is great, it covers all of the basics, has lots of "classic" looks and even though it was released in 1997 it's still pretty accurate. Just two things: a) New formulas, especially waterless foundation and poured blushes (and other powders), were invented recently and are therefor not mentioned, so keep that in mind when you read the book. b) His (I think) 3 book share content, so don't buy all of them without intensive research. Unfortunately I haven't figured out yet, how much and what kind of material they share. But if someday I do, I may buy another one.

The Yasmin Heinzs book is very interesting, but more on the high fashion/editorial side and afaik just available in German.

The Nars book is, well, different and more on the coffee table book side. Here you can find a tiny preview. It doesn't fokus on basics/tecniques, more on the overall result, so I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner. Every look is photographed in front of the same grey background and is retouched very little/not at all. You have two photos: The bare faced model on the right page and the finished result on the left. Between the pages is a clear sheet with product placement references. From time to time some pages with product-specific instructions are inserted (an example of these is included in the preview). The looks themselves are typically Nars: Some times minimal, some times bolder, but never heavy or cakey. And all of the models have beautiful skin, but are otherwise on the diverse side (with two males (one with a 4-to-7-day-beard), which are on the more dramatic side).

The photographer is Kwame Brathwaite, and a book of his 1960s photography was just released yesterday!

From this article:

> Brathwaite was inspired by the Pan-African philosophy of Marcus Garvey and with his brother, Elombe, a political activist, he helped to create a new hub of creativity in Harlem – the African Jazz-Art Society and Studios (AJASS) – a radical collection of artists, playwrights and dancers to celebrate the African roots of black American culture. Part of that celebration was a new ideal of black female fashion and beauty that rejected the dominant culture of straightened hair and “candy lipstick” of what was called “hot pants blackness” and embraced natural Afro hairstyles and bold African inspired clothes. Brathwaite and AJASS developed the idea for an arts festival called Naturally ’66 with these new “Grandassa” models.

If you're comfortable with charts, I find that a lot of the Pierrot patterns are nice.

Some paid patterns I like: 1 2 3 4 5.

I've also been loving Crochet Me: Designs for the Crochet Revolution, Custom Crocheted Sweaters, and Positively Crochet lately. I find libraries are sometimes good resources for pattern books -they're at 746.43 (I think) in the Dewey decimal system.

If you're interested in a cardigan and had a specific style in mind, let me know. I'm working on a lacier style now but hope to do a second one later this week and I haven't yet decided what the style will be so I'm happy to go with what someone else wants.

I have quite a few free patterns on my Pinterest board of Apparel, if that's of any help to you.

Making Faces by Kevin Aucoin I feel like he covers a lot of the basics really well here and also does a great job of showing some fun/dramatic stuff.

The Beauty of Color by Iman Was the only book I could find that did a good job talking about makeup specifically for women of color.

Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual: For Everyone from Beginner to Pro this is the only Bobbi Brown book I'd recommend, it does a great job of basics and tends to focus on more everyday makeup.

Ok well for general books I'd really recommend "100 designers 10 curators" as it helps flesh out a lot of different brands. (Most you will never see ever again)

As far as some of the bigger ones

i know there are more undercover books but i think they're pretty much impossible to find for a decent price so you're going to have to PDF find them.

this dries one looked really interesting if it's the same one i remember seeing in person.

rick has an absolute ton of books and magazines about him.

the terry jones id one are generally the cheapest but never have too much meat. they're pretty though and make for good decorations.

Okay!

I do not do very much with ancient clothing, so I have fewer recommendations there. I'm a big fan of Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, which I used to write a substantial answer on ancient veiling. It's extremely detailed on the subject of what evidence there is in artwork and in texts about the custom of veiling and about the different types of veils themselves. (I think I found it on Academia.edu, full disclosure.) Another I've referenced here is Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece, by
Mireille M. Lee. It treats on all aspects of ancient Greek fashion, from pieces of clothing to hairstyles to views on body hair, and I find it quite readable.

I find that basically all academic writing on nineteenth century dress takes place in journals like Dress, Costume, and Textile History - books tend to be more focused on sewing or on gorgeous catalogue photos. The Corset: A Cultural History by Valerie Steele is an exception, a really good discussion of not just the history of corseting but the history of how society has regarded the corsets themselves and the women who wore/wear them, from the constant fear of vain and seductive tightlacing to marketing strategies used by post-industrial manufacturers. Joan Severa's Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900 is also a detailed exploration of men's and women's dress during the Victorian era (the only thing I quibble with is Severa's frequent use of judgey language when discussing corsetry of the 1840s and 1850s). Both of these are useful for understanding the everyday dress of working women.

In the twentieth century, the concept of "working women" changes, so it's harder to pin down exactly how to address it ... Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style by Deirdre Clemente is vital, imo, to understanding the casualization of dress in the mid-twentieth century (which has knock-on effects on women who worked). Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945 by Melissa McEuen is a fascinating study on how women took on more a public role in the workforce during the war years, and were also expected to maintain their appearances to an unprecedented degree.

Outside of fashion, you might be interested in "Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America by Glenna Matthews. This deals with the changes in the way that housewifely skills were seen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - how they went from expected drudgery that you passed off if you could, to something seen as real work that required skill and practice, and back to unfulfilling drudge work that was avoided by increased consumption of ready-made goods.

Much more outside of your specific topics, but Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America by Jo Paoletti is just a really good read. As a Millennial, I have a hard time imagining a world without intense gender color-coding for children, and learning about just how recent it is for the coding to exist, let alone be so intense, is very cool. (My favorite color is blue. When I was a little kid, my male friend would always tell me it couldn't be, because blue was for boys.)

I actually completely forgot it was Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Whoops!

I’d like to enter for my boyfriend. He’s been off sick from work nearly 3 weeks now because of stress - so it would be great to cheer him up before he goes back to work.

I’ve been eyeing up something like this as he loves everything Japanese. There’s also this novel that he might be interested in.

Thank you for doing this. You’re going to make people feel very loved on a day that brings us together. ^_^

If you are interested, there are many books on the history of fashion. Online source like Business of Fashion is an excellent publication on anything and everything fashion news related. You can also go on to the designer section of Vogue and you will find brief history on different designers. NYT's Fashion section would occasionally have great interviews and articles on fashion influencers. But books will always be your best bet. Here are some if you are interested (A, B, C)

I'm not very exciting. Um...ooh, how about the fact that I love to Lindy Hop and used to be decently good at it? I haven't done it in a few years now, but my fiance and I actually placed 2nd in a competition back in our years of Lindy-ing.

I'd love this book of patterns! It's not related to what I shared about myself, but most people know about my love for/obsession with crocheting so that wouldn't work to share.

I grew up on Disney as my Mom worked at the Disney store when I was young; as well as being within driving distance to Disney Land when I was really young, we would go frequently.

After I started collecting watches and I read Cult Watches where they talk about the old Ingersoll "Character Watches" and specifically the Mickey Mouse watch, I knew I needed to pick one up.

After doing some research, I found the exact style I wanted, which turned out to be the less rare Bradley make, but in the rarer "Fat Boy with large hands" model. This is actually the version worn by Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code (however; not the "large hands").

I found one on eBay and $27 later, it was mine. Came in the mail today and I couldn't be happier and makes me laugh when I look at my wrist.

Great quote from the book:

>"Pulling back the sleeve of his jacket he checked his watch - a vintage, collector's edition Mickey Mouse wristwatch that had been a gift from his parents on his tenth birthday. Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon never owned any other watch ; Disney animation had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart ....

>'Interesting watch' Sophie said."
(The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, 2003)

It's not that anything came before them, they were just repurposed. Though always debated, scientists believe that feathers first functions were not for flight, but thermal regulation and/or displays. Eventually, this was "repurposed" into gliding and later, flight.

There is an amazing book called Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle that discusses exaptation of feathers in an engaging way, I hope you look into it!

edit: spelling

Huh?! She was the most pleasant and well measured of everyone when questioning Comey. My boyfriend and I even commented on how she was being super super nice compared to everyone before she began questioning. I'm sure she knows the shit she'd get for being any more insistent; she's looking potentially at a presidential run after all.

Anyway.

You know where the word hysterical comes from? The root word for uterus, hystera. The Greeks thought there was a purely physical cause for emotional unrest, but that it was linked exclusively to the uterus. The Greeks were (and still are to a degree though much, much less so) also a predominantly patriarchal culture and, in ancient times, required women to wear veils covering their faces and otherwise be escorted by men on the streets to do simple tasks such as grocery shopping. If you didn't wear a veil, then it was assumed you were a prostitute and you were socially shamed thusly.

"He shows that the veil was a conscious extension of the house and was often referred to as 'tegidion', literally 'a little roof'. Veiling was thus an ingenious compromise; it allowed women to circulate in public while maintaining the ideal of a house-bound existence."
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Aphrodites-Tortoise-Veiled-Ancient-Greece/dp/0954384539

Cool. So we are now pulling from a culture from thousands of years ago to inform our conception of a woman? You know what? If they had used any other word (maybe assertive for example), then I wouldn't have ascribed this intent.

Fuck the GOP.

Most of the information you'll find about historical fashions online are meant to help to recreate the garments. The most popular periods to recreate tend to be those that are tied to re-enactment groups. For the 1650s, you won't find much; however, just a decade earlier was the English Civil War for which there are a lot of re-enactment groups like this one. Since it's only a decade off, members of the group may have some stuff online that may help you. Here is a good blog to get you started.

In the meantime; here are some books that will help:

17th C Women's Dress Patterns: part 1

17th C Women's Dress Patterns: part 2

17th & 18th C Fashion in Detail

Glasgow Museums 17th C Costume

Just to get started. I personally own pretty much all of these. You notice a fashion shift in the 17th C starting around the mid 1620s and continuing well until 1680s. That isn't to say you could wear the same style garment throughout that time period - just that what is worn from that point couldn't be mistaken for the century before or after. Similar to in the 20th C, no one would blink about a just below the knee skirt from the 1920s on.

I have a book called The Dress of the People by John Styles that’s super informative. I got it through my local library.

https://www.amazon.com/Dress-People-Everyday-Fashion-Eighteenth-Century/dp/0300121199/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=the+dress+of+the+people&qid=1570843221&sprefix=the+dress+of+the+peop&sr=8-1

You may also check out Colonial Williamsburg’s website or The School of Historical Dress.

If you narrow your focus to a geographical area it will make things easier on you (France, The UK, the Colonies, etc.).

Also you can ask a librarian at your local library to help you (many libraries allow you to do this via email as well). Just make sure it’s an actual library and not a clerk. You can ask for the reference desk and say you need help with research for school if you’re not sure.

I picked up a copy of Cult Watches for pretty cheap on Amazon, and it might fit what you're looking for. It gives a brief history of 30 or so iconic watches (many of which you'd expect, i.e. the Submariner, Royal Oak, Accutron, Reverso, etc., and some that you wouldn't, i.e. Swatches, the Mickey Mouse watch). It was a fun read, and if you're in to design history, you'd probably really enjoy it.

The book you're looking for is called Stepping Through Time. You'll likely need to do some scaling and adjusting, but it will definitely get you on the right path. Good luck!

Here's what I found for ya:
Son of Stitch 'n Bitch

Crochet Dude's 30 Designs for Guys

I usually grab stuff like this at halfprice books. :)

There are TONS of free patterns on the Lion Brand website too. You should check there for giggles. ...manly giggles.

As a makeup enthusiast, something I've always thought would be cool to own is makeup books (perhaps I should note that I also like books). I imagine that they would be useful for reading about techniques and drawing inspiration. I've never seen them in person myself, but I have heard good things about the Nars book and the Kevin Aucoin book on youtube before.

Edit: formatting

It says something Cartier which is a jewelry brand..

Edit : it looks like this

Not sure what it could mean though

Second edit :
The book is about :

“Presents a meticulously selected overview of Cartier's contribution to 20th-century design and culture. Drawing extensively from the rich holdings of the Cartier Collection and Archive and the expertise of Cartier Heritage, it features not only a sumptuous array of rings, bracelets, necklace, and tiaras, but also cocktail and smoking accessories, mystery clocks, and lavish gifts exchanged by movie stars and maharajas, all created by Cartier's ateliers in Paris, London, and New York...”

We know she loves Elizabeth Taylor?

AidanSN's Holiday Wish-list v.1

• Jeans of the Old West
  
  
• Rowing Blazers
  
  
• 3ds(xl?) (or should i wait for the new one?) + games
  
  
• a 60% mechanical keyboard (still figuring out which one, any suggestions?)
  
  
• dr martens 1461 in cherry
  
  
• thick, heavy, chunky, textured, wool knit sweater or cardigan, maybe a cable-knit
  
  
• dr martens 1460 mono black
  
  
• house of matriarch blackbird perfume
  
  
• nice light blue and light gray ocbd (lost my blue uniqlo one, + the 'qlo size small's sleeves are a little short, and shoulders a little tight, but fits perfect everywhere else)
  
  
• black, charcoal, and/or navy crew-neck merino sweaters
  
  obviously in it's early stages

Ah, yes, I forgot that birds moult. But in my defense, it's not the same kind of thing as reptilian skin shedding.

And yes, the evolution of feathers is quite interesting. Thor Hanson's book does a fine job of outlining the journey from filaments to full specialized feathers.

This looks super cool!

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Edit to add number.

Second edit. Don't know if you have prime. If that is over $5 there are tons of other options on my lists.

If all my fashion history books were about to explode and I could only choose one, I would have to take two: Survey of Historic Costume and Evolution of Fashuion: Pattern and Cut 1066 to 1930.

The first one is a text book, but I love the history that it goes into, really linking clothing to a solid background, showing the influence it had on history and vice versa. Not to mention all the suggested resources on each topic.

The second one is more limited in scope, but it has detailed line drawings of each trend for men and women, plus info on fabric and colour trends, accesories and undergarments, hair, even how the clothes made people carry themselves. Then there's a two page spread of the shape of each individual pattern piece that went into the outfits pictured.

After taking these two books, I would shed a single tear as this book and this one exploded into a million pieces.

Check out this book if you get into coats and blazers. Maybe pick up a cheap coat or blazer from a charity shop and take it apart for reference. Always helps to be able to touch something to see how it all gets put together.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1589232305/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VLuPCbEGMJN7W

I watched the Channel 4 news and they interviewed this Greek-British donor to UKIP. The guy held some brain-melting opinions, one of which was that women wear trousers to look less sexy, he had even written a book on the subject, entitled Women in Trousers: a rear view.

http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Color-Ultimate-Guide-Skin/dp/0399153187

This book taught me EVERYTHING about application, color theory, and what's even good for my skin tone. It's simple.... and she's David Bowie's wife. c'mon. :-)

https://www.amazon.com/Kwame-Brathwaite-Beautiful-Tanisha-Ford/dp/159711443X/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=kwame+brathwaite+black+is+beautiful&qid=1558367678&s=gateway&sprefix=Kwame+Braithwaite+&sr=8-1-fkmrnull



If you really like his work you can purchase this book about him on Amazon.

Also, in case you are interested in reading up about Japan, I highly recommend 'A Geek in Japan'. Another insightful read was 'The lady and the Monk'.

Would a button up jacket like this work? I made one for myself and now my husband wants one too!

If not this hoodie From this book is appropriate, the used ones are really cheap too!

I've been reading Rowing Blazers. Makes a good coffee table book.

> That's the same guy that registered the troll ukip subreddit. The same guy that admits using multiple accounts. …

> So whatever Strolls is doing, and all his many incarnations,

If you can't tell that /u/DemetriMarchessini is a joke then it reflects poorly only on you.

Claiming that I'm doing something underhand by using a novelty account to take the piss out of you only suggests you don't know much about the party you yourself support, or that you're a very poor sport.

I'm a huge fashion junkie and somewhat of a history nerd, so I found this coloring book from Dover publications.

I've been dying to go to Scotland!

$5 Item

$10 Item

Here's a link to the book on Amazon.

It's Godey's Fashions Coloring Book

It's this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cartier-20th-Century-Margaret-Young-S%C3%A1nchez/dp/0865653119

They're scans from this book that I cleaned up in Photoshop and had printed.

Most of these are more Image than Text.

Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade

Rick Owens

Ann Demeulemeester

Dries Van Noten

Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been

Supreme

Raf Simons

KAWS

Hedi Slimane: Rock Diary

Undercover

Alexander McQueen: Savage Diary

Yves Saint Laurent

Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age

Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture

Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style

Dior Couture

Tom Ford

Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko

Sneaker Tokyo vol.2 'Hiroshi Fujiwara'

Bape

Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment