Booklist: Recommended Books on Costume

16th c. Tudor and Elizabethan Costuming Books:
- Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'D
- Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620
- Historic English Costumes and How to Make Them (Dover Books on Fashion)
- The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing 16th-Century Dress

18th c. Rococo Fashion Books:
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
- Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
 Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660-1860
- 18th Century Clothing (Historic Communities)
- The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England

19th c. Victorian and Edwardian Costuming Books:
- Dress for all occasions: Women's costumes from the 1880s and 1890s
 Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660-1860

- 19th Century Clothing (Historic Communities)

- The Handbook Of Dressmaking - 1845 Reprint

- Opulent Era: Fashions of Worth, Doucet and Pingat

- Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 1: Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day Dresses 1877-1882

- Reconstruction Era Fashions: 350 Sewing, Needlework, & Millinery Patterns 1867-1868

General Surveys of Costume:
- The Mode in Costume: A Historical Survey with 202 Plates (Dover Pictorial Archives)
- Historical Costumes of England 1066-1968

- The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900

- Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute

- Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, Volume 1: 18th and 19th Century (Taschen 25) (Midi S.)

- Survey of Historic Costume

- Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Costume: 1200 Full-Color Figures

- The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930

- Children's Costume: The Complete Historical Sourcebook
- The Mode in Hats and Headdress: A Historical Survey with 198 Plates (Dover Pictorial Archives)
- The Mode in Footwear: A Historical Survey with 53 Plates (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Books on Dress of the American West:

- Cowgirls: Women of the Wild West

- How the West was Worn: A Complete History of Western Wear

- 100 Years of Western Wear

Janet Arnold Pattern Books:
- Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660-1860
- Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620
- Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940

- Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women C. 1540-1660 (Patterns of Fashion)

Nora Waugh Pattern Books:
- The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900
- The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930

Sears Catalogs and Books on 20th c. Vintage Fashion:
- Everyday Fashions of the Twenties as Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs (Sears Catalogs)
- Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Costume & Textiles)
- Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs
- Everyday Fashions of the Fifties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Books on Fashion)
- Everyday Fashions, 1909-1920, As Pictured in Sears Catalogs

- After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles

Books on Corsetry:
- The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners
- The Corset: A Cultural History
- Waisted Efforts: An Illustrated Guide to Corset Making
- Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques
- The Little Corset Book: A Workbook on Period Underwear (Little Costume Workbooks)
- Corsets and Crinolines