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I'm Olive. Fashion
Historian & Designer

Cavendish Couture Presents...
A Celestial Pairing

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The Pocket

By Barbara Burman & Ariane Fennetaux

A Hidden History of Women's Lives

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The Dress Detective

By Ingrid Mida & Alexandra Kim

A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion

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Shaping Femininity

By Sarah A. Bendall

Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England

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Bodice Engineering

Louise Johnson

Mastering the Inner Corselette

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Couture Sewing Techniques

By Clare B. Shaeffer

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FASHION

By the Smithsonian Institute

The Definitive History of Costume & Style

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200 Essential Embroidery Stitches

By the Royal School of Needlework

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Goldwork

By the Royal School of Needlework

Teachniques, Projects, & Pure Inspiration

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Art of Embroidery

By the Royal School of Needlework

History of Style & Technique

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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

By Elizabeth Norton

A Social History

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How to be a Tudor

By Ruth Goodman

A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

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Tudor Textiles

By Eleri Lynn

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The Tudor Tailor

By Jane Malcom-Davies & Ninya Mikhaila

Reconstructing 16th Century Dress

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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

By Ruth Goodman

A guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, & braggarts

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Seventeenth & Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

By Avril Hart & Susan North

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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

By Ian Mortimer

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The Age of Undress

By Amelia Rauser

Art, Fashion, & the classical ideal in the 1790s

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How to be a Victorian

By Ruth Goodman

A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

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