I have my copy of Costume, vol 49, no.2, it arrived in the
post this week and there is an article by Jenny Tiramani on the next volumes of
Patterns of Fashion that they are planning.
First, which I was aware of, will be on stays, hoops and
rumps 1600-1795. This volume, which will be Pattens of Fashion 5 will include
the 1660 silver tissue outfit in the Fashion Museum at Bath. There will be
x-rays of the type that Jenny has used in the two volumes of Seventeenth
Century Women’s Dress Patterns that have been published by the Victoria and
Albert Museum.
Patterns of Fashion 6 will cover men’s and women’s clothes
c1620 to 1700, however I get the impression from Jenny’s writing that the bulk
of the patterns in no. 6 will be menswear, and will include several from the
Livrustkammaren, Stockholm. All those who own or are aware of Lena Rangstrom’s
book Modelejon manligt mode
: Lions of fashion, male fashion in the
16th, 17th and 18th centuries, will look
forward to having patterns from some of these exquisite items.
Jenny mentions that there are around 250 patterns taken by
Janet Arnold in her archive, which resides with the School of Historical Dress,
and states that there are plans for at least a further Patterns of Fashion 7,
on women 1700-1820, and Patterns of Fashion 8, on men 1700-1820. There are also
patterns for future volumes to cover more recent periods. We all owe Jenny
Tiramani, Santina Levey and all those involved in the School of Historical
Dress and great debt for carrying on Janet’s work.
