Costume bibliography for students

Please note also that this bibliography was compiled with reference to the mid-16th to early 18th century - there may well be useful sources for other periods which are not listed.

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Clothes

Arch, N and Marschner, J, Splendour at court - dressing for royal occasions since 1700, London, Unwin Hyman, 1987
Arnold, J, Patterns of fashion - Englishwomen's dresses and their construction c.1660-1860, London, Wace, 1964
Arnold, J, Patterns of fashion - the cut and construction of clothes for men and women c.1560-1620, London, Macmillan, 1985
Anthony, P and Arnold, J, Costume - a general bibliography, Victoria & Albert Museum/Costume Society, London, 1974
Ashelford, J, The art of dress - clothes and society 1500-1914, London, National Trust, 1996
Ashelford, J, The visual history of costume, the 16th century, London, Batsford, 1983
Baclawski, K, The guide to historical costume, London, Batsford, 1995
Boucher, F, A history of costume in the west, London, Thames & Hudson, 1966; new edn 1987
Bradfield, N, Historical costumes of England 1066-1956, London, Harrap, 1958
Bradfield, N, Costume in detail 1730-1930, London, Harrap, 1981
Brooke, I, Dress and undress: the Restoration and 18th century, Westport, Conn., Greenwood, 1973
Buck, A, Dress in eighteenth century England, London, Batsford, 1979
Buck, A, A brief view, Manchester, City Art Gallery, 1949
Buck, A, The clothes of Thomasine Petre 1555-1539, Costume, No24, 1990
Byrde, P, The male image: men's fashion in Britain 1300-1970, London, Batsford, 1979
Carter, AJ, Mary Tudor's Wardrobe in Costume, No 18, 1984, pp9-28
Chenoune, F, A history of men's fashion, Paris, Flammarion, 1993
Cumming, V, Exploring costume history 1500-1900, London, Batsford, 1981
Cumming, V, The visual history of costume, the 17th century, London, Batsford, 1984
Cumming, V, Royal dress, London, Batsford 1989
Cunnington, CW & P, Handbook of English costume in the 16th century, Boston, Plays Inc, 1970 (2nd edn)
Cunnington, CW and P, Handbook of English costume in the 17th century, London, Faber and Faber, 1955 (1st edn), 1966 (2nd edn), 1972 (3rd edn)
Cunnington, CW and P, Handbook of English costume in the 18th century, London, Faber and Faber, 1957 (1st edn), 1964 (2nd edn)
Cunnington, CW and P, The history of underclothes, London, Faber & Faber, 1951, new edn 1981
Cunnington, P and Buck, A, Children's costume in England from the 14th to the end of the 19th century, London, A&C Black, 1965
Cunnington, P and Lucas, C, Costume for deaths, marriages and births, London, A&C Black, 1972
Cunnington, P and Lucas, C, Occupational costume in England from the 11th century to 1914, London, A&C Black, 1974
Cunnington, P, The costume of household servants from the Middle Ages to 1900, London, A&C Black, 1974
Cunnington, P and Mansfield, A, English costume for sports and outdoor recreation from the 16th to the 19th centuries, London, A&C Black, 1969
de Marly, D, Fashion for men: an illustrated history, London, Batsford, 1978
Ewing, E, Dress and undress - a history of women's underwear, London, Batsford, 1978, new edn 1989
Hunnisett, J, Period costume for stage and screen: patterns for women's dress 1500-1800, London, Bell & Hyman, 1986
Kybalova, L and others, The pictorial encyclopaedia of fashion, New York, Crown Publishers Inc, 1968
Laver, J (ed), Contini, M, Fashion from ancient Egypt to the present day, London, Hamlyn, 1965
Laver, J (ed), Costume and fashion: a concise history, London, Thames and Hudson, 1st edn 1969, 2nd edn 1995
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An elegant art; fashion and fantasy in the 18th century, Los Angeles, LA County Museum of Art, 1983
London Museum, Men's costume 1580-1750, London, HMSO, 1970
London Museum, Men's costume 1750-1800, London, HMSO, 1973
London Museum, Women's costume 1750-1800, London,HMSO, 1972
London Museum, Women's costumes 1600-1750, London, HMSO, 1969
Marshall, RK, "To be the kingis grace ane dowblett": The costume of James V, King of Scots, in Costume, No 28, 1994, pp14-21
Nunn, J, Fashion in costume 1200-1980, New York, Schocken, 1984
Peacock, J, The chronicle of western costume, London, Thames and Hudson, 1991
Ribeiro, A, The visual history of costume, the 18th century, London, Batsford, 1983
Ribeiro, A, The dress worn at masquerades in England 1730 to 1790 and its relation to fancy dress in portraiture, New York, Garland, 1984
Ribeiro, A, Dress and morality, London, Batsford, 1986
Ribeiro, A, and Cumming, V, The visual history of costume, London, Batsford, 1989
Ribeiro, A, The art of dress: fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820, London, Yale University Press, 1995
Rothstein, N (ed), 400 Years of Fashion, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984
Rowley, C, Costume in Chertsey Museum, London, Runnymede District Council, 1976
Tarrant, N, The development of costume, London, National Museum of Scotland/Routledge, 1994
Taylor, L, Mourning Dress, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983
Tilke, M, Costume patterns and design, London, A Zwemmer Ltd, 1956
Tozer, J, Cunnington's interpretation of dress, in Costume, No 20, 1986, pp1-17
von Sichart, E (ed), A history of costume, London, Constable, 1963
Wilcox, RT, The dictionary of costume, London, Batsford, 1969
Waugh, N, Corsets and crinolines, London, Batsford, 1954
Waugh, N, The cut of men's clothes 1600-1900, London, Faber, 1964
Waugh, N, The cut of women's clothes 1600-1930, London, Faber, 1968
Yarwood, D, English costume from the 2nd century BC to 1952, London, Batsford, 1952