Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady's Wardrobe (Dover Fashion and Costumes)

I love this book. My only disappointment is that it does not come with the proportionate rulers needed to scale the drawings. The introduction makes no reference to the rulers, nor does it say where to get them or explains what they are/look like. It assumes you already know or have them. I learned what they were from searching the internet trying to figure how to use the patterns. Once I found out what I needed I purchased The Edwardian Modiste, which included the rulers and was good to go. The patterns are awesome and fairly easy to read, takes some getting used to since they aren't like commercial patterns we use today.

This is a great resource for anyone who is interested in sewing, costuming, or historical clothing. The patterns inside are to scale, so make sure that you have advanced knowledge of sewing before undertaking this project. But, the history and patterns are very accurate and fascinating!

I enjoyed this book and you can trace over the patterns and also make these outfits for dolls or enlarge them for human size. It is great to read even from a historical look into fashions that were once worn even if you don't sew you may find this book very interesting.

The pattern illustrations in this book are magnificent as are the instructions on how to draft up the patterns to fit as a tailor made garment. This book has turned out to be everything that I had hoped it would be and more. As someone who would consider herself to be intermediate in her sewing skills at best and completely new to drafting patterns, it was clear enough for me to attempt the drafting process almost immediately after reading the instructions on "how to". Thoroughly recommend this book.

This book was very informative. The patterns were very detailed and they gave a very instructive look at how Victorian ladies dressed . The only criticism I had was I wish the fashion plates were colored so I could more readily envision what the finished dresses looked like. the book, however was just as described and I really should not complain as the book was not described as having colored pages. I did mention to the seller that I wished they had mentioned the pages were not in color and they replied. with a very nice note and they refunded my purchase price which I thought was very generous of them. Good Customer Service! I would not hesitate to order books from them again.

Man, I adore this book. Very clear instructions and a bit of history. I've learned a lot, and I've only made two things from it!

You will have to have some knowledge of drafting to use these patterns. But still a great book with great patterns! Not for beginners or novice sewists but you can definitely learn how to draft by googling or watching videos on YouTube!

I love the dresses in here and even though I'm super bad at pattern scaling, I love all the dresses in the book. I would give it a 10/10 I would for sure recommend

Bought for son doing Fashion Design degree. He loves it as it will help him think about making pattern for his final collection.

Sencillamente genial, referencias de como desarrollar las prendaa y cada parte. Efectivamente se necesitan conocimientos de patronaje pero tambien sirve como herramienta sobre el tipo de vestuario y las partes de que se componen. Recomendado.

This product is exactly as described and just what I wanted. Good price and quick delivery.

Nel libro trovate i pattern vittoriani originali da seguire per riprodurre i capi di abbigliamento tipici dell'epoca, a mia sorella sarta è piaciuto tantissimo! In the book you find original victorian patterns to follow to sew your favourite dresses from the era, my sewing sister is loving it!

I used this only as a guideline to make doll clothes as I can pattern draft I just needed a bit of historical guidance.