Bringing the history of dress to life for students through beautifully crafted videos using historically accurate period costume.

Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail includes exclusive videos with complementary resources and articles, ideal for teaching and study. They explore historical context and materials, fastenings and garment details, how garments were made, and how they were worn.

Watch immersive videos exploring garments, including both menswear and womenswear, in detail, spanning a vast historical timeline, and aimed specifically at a student audience. A key aspect of each video is the act of getting dressed; they clearly demonstrate how the garments were layered and worn in real life.

Content highlights

• Get practical advice with learning material videos on how to research historic dress and how to create garments without patterns – all videos have closed captions and transcripts.
• Delve deeper by reading articles accompanying each video, providing key historical context as well as primary and secondary source lists to aid further research and study.
• Topics include Roman, Tudor, Regency, Victorian, and Modernist dress, many of which are perfectly aligned to designing costume for performance.

The videos are from Crow's Eye Productions, whose core team includes a filmmaker specializing in period drama, documentaries, and instructional films, and a dress historian and costumier with over 30 years of experience in period costume-making. All content has been reviewed by leading dress historian Valerie Cumming.

This unique collection will bring period costume to life for all those studying and designing costume for performance, as well as for students and researchers within fashion history, and theatre studies alike.