Shubert - Out-of-style: an illustrated guide to vintage fashions: 19th-21st centuries

TESTIMONIALS FROM THE EXPERTS

I have bought numerous History of Costume books, but none of them tell me what I need to know, in a manner I can easily access, absorb and utilize. Your book, Out-of-Style, is so easy to understand, I want to be the first to endorse it.

the late Caroline Rober Past President of Southern California Association of Professional Genealogists

You have done a masterful job of defining your subject and your expertise in this field is unique.... Your book promises to be a wonderful help to genealogist researchers everywhere. With great admiration for you.

Loretto (Lou) Szucs, Author

V.P. Community Relations, Executive Editor, Ancestry.com

A great reference book. I cant wait to put it to use!

Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective

Having struggled many times to figure out when a photo was taken, I know how much this book is needed. Bettys expertise will be helpful to all of us who depend on historical accuracy.

Juliana Smith, Ancestry.com Editor, Weekly Discovery

Teachers of Theatre will f ind this book to be a useful tool. This text helps technical theatre students create correctly styled costumes and helps performers create characters influenced by time appropriate attire.

Bart McHenry, Dean of Fine Arts and Media Technology, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California

FASCINATING! I couldnt put it down. The author shows how social development influenced how we dress. I would certainly include this book in my theatre classes for its value to future costumers, directors and actors.

Allen M. Zeltzer Professor of Theatre, Emeritus, Cal-State University at Fullerton

Many costume designers send sketches into the workroom with beautiful, but vague, artistic flourishes, leaving the actual interpretation to pattern makers. Bettys sketches are beautiful, but easy to translate, because she knows where all the seams go.

Marlene Madrid Retired Supervisor of the Disneyland Costume Workroom

Drawing upon her years of costume design experience and love of social history, Betty gives the lay person or the professional designer an invaluable research tool. She does this simply and without the complexity one must wade through in other history of costume books. Her creativity and sense of humour jumps from every page. This is one of the most valued go to books in my library with talking points new, even to me.

Alyja Kalinich Disneyland Costume Designer

Written & Illustrated by

BETTY KREISEL SHUBERT

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Mineola, New York

To my wonderful husband, Lyndon Shubert, my Enabler, who graciously enabled me to concentrate on this book... instead of on him.

And to my daughter, Kathryn Gale Kreisel, and my son, Ken Kreisel, for their love, support and pride in this endeavor.

Copyright

Copyright 2013, 2018 by Betty Kreisel Shubert

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an updated and revised republication of the work originally published by Flashback Publishing, Mission Viejo, California, in 2013.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shubert, Betty Kreisel, author.

Title: Out-of-style : an illustrated guide to vintage fashions / Betty Kreisel Shubert.

Description: Revised [edition]. | Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2018. | This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an updated and revised republication of the work originally published by Flashback Publishing, Mission Viejo, California, in 2013. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017044746| ISBN 9780486819884 (paperback) | ISBN 0486819884

Subjects: LCSH: Clothing and dressHistory19th centuryPictorial works. | Clothing and dressHistory20th centuryPictorial works. | FashionHistory19th centuryPictorial works. | FashionHistory20th centuryPictorial works. | BISAC: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Textiles & Costume. | DESIGN / History & Criticism. | CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Fashion.

Classification: LCC GT513 .S58 2018 | DDC 391.009dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044746

Manufactured in China by RR Donnelley

81988401 2018

www.doverpublications.com

BETTYS THEORY OF EVOLUTION

New fashions are created by the logical accident of experimentation... gradually evolving into numerous mutations that may take decades to play out.... If everyone likes the new look, then that is IN and everything else is OUT!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T he first drafts of this book were encouraged by a Cheerleading Squad whose ongoing enthusiasm carried me through four years of concentrated effort to final completion!

Head cheerleader was my fashionista friend, Sally Feathers (a former real cheerleader), whose sunshine and devotion has continued to warm my pen and my heart.

Because I was computer illiterate when I began... and never learned to type (this entire book was written in longhand), my dear friend Marlene Madrid, retired supervisor of the Disneyland costume workroom, offered to type my entire book, refusing any payment except my unending gratitude for helping me get started.

I have everlasting gratitude to the late Caroline Rober, professional genealogist, who saw my first drafts of Out-of-Style and validated that I was indeed providing genealogists with an important new tool to help them climb their family trees. Thank you, Caroline, for your initial guidance.

Next, I met the delightful Lou Szucs, famous genealogist, author and Executive Editor of Ancestry.com, who immediately recognized how useful my information would be to genealogists to enable them to time-date their old family photographs. Lous educated encouragement and subsequent friendship has been of ongoing support to me.

Thank you to Ellen Reid, my helpful Book Shepherd, who guided me to Ghislain Viau, of Creative Publishing Book Design, whose good taste, creativity, patience and empathy quickly captured my vision and transformed it into the reality you see here.

Thank you to Vanessa Putt, Jennifer Becker, Terri Geus, Ellen Kraft, and the rest of the Creative Team at Dover Publications for giving a renewed look at my Lifes Work by updating this newly envisioned Second Edition.

Special thanks to my brilliant son, Ken Kreisel (who invented the world-famous, self-powered subwoofer and other audio inventions while still in his twenties). Ken and my grandson, Nick Kreisel, have tutored me daily on the use of my willful and temperamental computer.

THANK YOU and CHEERS! to all my cheerleaders!

CONTENTS

CORSETS

BRASSIERES

STOCKINGS

REFORM DRESS

WEDDINGS

MATERNITY CLOTHES

MOURNING DRESS

BATHING SUITS

PHOTOGRAPHY

SEWING MACHINES

WASHING MACHINES AND DRYERS

HAIRSTYLES

STYLE CLUES DECADE BY DECADE 18401900s

Illustrations and Descriptive Text

STYLE CLUES DECADE BY DECADE 18401900s

Illustrations and Descriptive Text

STYLE CLUES DECADE BY DECADE 18401900s

Illustrations and Descriptive Text

STYLE CLUES DECADE BY DECADE 18401900s