Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, matern

The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume

Rich selection of dressmakers' patterns from popular, late-19th-century magazine The Voice of Fashion includes 50 garments for women, from day and evening dress

This collection of literary utopias calls for a complete overhaul of existing assumptions about utopian writing in this period. The representation of utopian te

“Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated . . . indispensable to anyone interested in the era.” —Tasha Alexander, New York Times–bestselling