Customer Reviews

Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)

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This is a carefully researched, beautifully photographed monograph on everyday clothing and high style fashions worn by early Americans during this important century in our history. A valuable resource for costume designers, writers, re-enactors, and historians, it also provides documentation and suggestions for further study.

I bought this with Costume Close-up by Baumgarten, and while it has pretty pictures and some interesting information, the brochure (and it really is just a bigger, prettier, brochure for the Williamsburg collection) just isn't as thick and full of the structural goodness that I appreciate in my costume literature. Worth getting, of course, but not one of those books I will end up relying on again, and again, like others I could mention (but will refrain from doing so in the interests of brevity).

This book explains like no other things like different levels of formality and the evolution of XVIIIth century fashion.Clear and easy to understand!

I bought this book a bit worried about whether it would be any good, based on the reviews here. I was in Williamsburg, and looked at the other costume books available there. This is the least expensive, and therefore does not go into the depths of the much more expensive, larger books. But in itself it is sufficient to give a very good overview of the period. The pictures of original clothes in this book also appear in the other books, along with some others, but the additional pictures do not really add that much to what is in this book, and would cost an additional $55 in cost.

This small booklet has some interesting prints of colorful clothing of men, women, and children dress
(and underwear)from the colonial period of America. I find it worth while to sit back and look how our forefathers dressed.