The Lady's Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0963651773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 755 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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A manual to keep close at hand That is exactly what I've found myself doing in the months since this huge volume came to me: I've kept it very close at hand.If you're interested in the Regency period and want to get beyond secondary retellings of the details of ladies' lives in the era, this is a terrific book to have. The title might have been "The Lady's Compendium", so detailed are the contents. Just about anything touching modes and manners is covered here: from the expected, such as fashion and etiquette, to the esoteric, such as recipes for dying the hair or dying . Fascinating Book This is a wonderful book, meticulously researched and beautifully written (and translated).Drawn largely from domestic and etiquette manuals of the 1820s, The Lady's Stratagem offers advice, diagrams and precise instructions on fashion, needlework, millinery, health and beauty - including how to make your own cosmetics and corsets - physical deportment and the correct behaviour to be adopted by the middle-class French, American and British women and girls at whom the manuals were originally aimed.The well-illustrated section on clothing of . "You WANT this book!" according to Dawn Luckham. I received this book for Christmas and it's spectacular. This covers social "norms" for middle class people. It offers advice to the young woman on everything from making one's own corset and clothing in general to "Politeness in a Business or Profession". Period advice on cleaning teeth and dressing hair, to recovering shoes and knitting are included in this amazing work.Frances Grimble has given us a little `clip' of history with this large volume (755 pages including glossary and index). This is a translation from the original French, of
These are supplemented by excerpts from 23 rare English, French, and American publications. Instructions are given for laundering, dyeing, and storing garments. This required meticulous attention to appearance, manners, and management of social events. There is no comparable English-language needlework reference for the 1820s. . Manners & Customs. Beauty & Hygiene. Fashion & Costume. Sewing & Needlework. The core sources are six important French manuals, newly translated into period English. Particulars include how women bathed, cleaned their teeth, laced their stays, and dressed their hair. From the Inside Flap The Lady's Stratagem is a collection of early instructions on what was perceived as a female duty: To be agreeable. Comprehensive instructions are also given for millinery, knitting
She has worked for book publishers, magazine publishers, and software companies; she has written a number of user manuals and coauthored a computer book. Frances Grimble has been a how-to writer and editor since 1983. Frances Grimble is the author of nine books on historic costume and vintage clothing. Over 60 of her articles on sewing and vintage clothes have appeared in national magazines, such as Threa
The Lady's Stratagem is a comprehensive, step-by-step, illustrated guide to early 19th-century dressmaking, corset making, millinery, knitting, embroidery, clothing care, beauty treatments, and manners. The audiences include film and theatre costumers, historic re-enactors, and historical and romance novelists.