Brief Description:
Selected patterns from various issues of the Voice of fashion published in the 1890s.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
GENERAL DIRECTIONS
MISSES' WRAPPER. Summer 1893
LADIES' TEA GOWN. Spring 1893
LADIES' DRAWERS. Fall 1890
LADIES' DRAWERS. Spring 1893
LADIES' DRAWERS. Spring 1895
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Fall 1890
YOUNG MISSES' STREET COSTUME. Fall 1890
STREET COSTUME. Fall 1890
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Winter 1890-91
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1891
YOUNG MISSES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1891
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1894
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1894
MISSES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1894
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1894
LADIES' STREET GOWN Spring 1894
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1895
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1895
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Spring 1895
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Winter 1896
LADIES' MELON SLEEVE
LADIES' STREET COSTUME. Winter 1896
LADIES' COSTUME. Fall 1890
LADIES' PLAIN SKIRT.
LADIES' COSTUME. Fall 1890
LADIES' COSTUME. Winter 1890-91
LADIES' EMPIRE GOWN. Spring 1893
LADIES' COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' COSTUME. Summer 1893
LADIES' COSTUME. Spring 1894
LADIES' COSTUME Spring 1895
LADIES' HOUSE DRESS. Spring 1895
YOUNG LADIES' HOUSE DRESS. Spring 1895
LADIES' COSTUME. Spring 1895
LADIES' UMBRELLA SKIRT
LADIES' COSTUME. Winter 1896
LADIES' COSTUME. Winter 1896
STOUT LADIES' PRINCESS. Winter 1896
LADIES' TIGHT-FITTING JACKET. Winter 1890-91
LADIES' HUNTER'S JACKET. Spring 1895
TENNIS COSTUME. Fall 1890
RIDING HABIT. Spring 1891
YOUNG LADIES' EVENING COSTUME. Spring 1891
LADIES' EVENING GOWN. Spring 1894
LADIES' SACK NIGHTDRESS. Winter 1890-91
LADIES' NIGHT GOWN. Spring 1893

Publisher Marketing:
Imported custom-made clothes were usually beyond the financial reach of the average middle-class American woman of a century ago; and store-bought garments were often of inferior quality. This left many women with the options of making their own clothes or hiring a seamstress.
While a number of economy-minded women did sew simple housedresses, and clothing for their children, many took favorite fashion plates to a dressmaker who would often consult patterns in a magazine such as The Voice of Fashion. This book, compiled by costume authority Kristina Harris, painstakingly reprints a rich selection of scaled dressmakers' patterns of the 1890s, taken from rare issues of that popular, late-19th century dressmaker's journal. Featuring such fashion elements as leg-o'-mutton sleeves, high-collared necklines, long skirts, and pinched waistlines, the collection includes nearly 500 patterns and illustrations detailing 50 garments for women. Every wardrobe necessity for the Victorian lady is covered -- from nightgowns and wrappers for boudoir and breakfast, a riding habit and tennis outfit, to walking dresses for town and visiting, elegant dinner dresses, and elaborate evening gowns.
An introduction and brief instruction for using the patterns are also included in a volume that will not only find practical use among costume designers and students of fashion history, but will also delight browsers, Victorian enthusiasts, and anyone intrigued by the evolution of clothing styles. 498 illustrations.