Costume Book List
- Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion:
- The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c. 1560-1620 Takes
remaining pieces of period clothing and gives detailed drawings and
descriptions of how each piece was made and what was used. Includes both
English styles and those from the continent. Mostly Noble men's and women's
clothing.
- Arnold, Janet: Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe unlock'd. Leeds, Maney,
1988.
- Ashelford, Jane: Dress in the age of Elizabeth I. New York,
Holmes & Meier, 1988
- Ashelford, Jane: Visual history of costume: the sixteenth
century. London, Batsford, 1983.
- Cunnington, C. Willett & Phillis: Handbook of English costume in
the sixteenth century. Plays, 1970.
- A detailed account of men's and women's clothing in the 1500s. Mostly
discusses the Middle and Upper classes. Gives good black and white
illustrations.
- Gorsline, Douglas: What People Wore, Dover Publications 1980
(ISBN 0-486-28162-0)
- Kelly, Francis M. and Randolph Schwabe: A Short History of Costume and
Armour Covering the period from 1066 to 1800.
- The book mainly deals with upper class clothing. The large sections on
armour and weaponry are detailed and include labeled black and white drawings.
This is a good introduction to armour but deals mainly with what armour would
have been worn by the upper classes.
- Kohler, Carl: A History of Costume, Dover Publications, Inc. 1963
(ISBN 486-21030-8)
- Linthicum, M. Channing: Costume in the drama of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1936.
- Norris, Herbert: Tudor Costume and Fashion Reprint published by Dover Publications ISBN: 0333633326 m, ISBN:
031212922x v U.S.
- Norris, Herbert; Tudor Costume and Fashion; Dover Publications,
Inc. NY; 1997.
- Oakes, Alma and Margot Hamilton Hill: Rural Costume: Its origin and
development in Western Europe and the British Isles
- Covers the development of rural dress from the middle ages through the
eighteenth century. Focuses mainly on the continent but does give good insight
into how dress changed in England. Rural dress is not to be confused with
peasant or lower class dress as it is strictly discussing the clothing of
those who lived far from towns or cities.
- Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast: Fashion, Costume, and Culture
vol. 3 European Culture from the Renaissance to the Modern Era
- A textbook that gives a good general overview of clothing, headwear, body
decorations, and footwear in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Strong, Roy: The Elizabethan icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean
portraiture. New York, Pantheon, 1969.
- Strong, Roy: Tudor and Jacobean portraits. London, HMSO, 1969.
- Winter, Janet & Schultz, Carolyn: Elizabethan costuming for the
years 1550-1580. Oakland, Other Times, 1983.