Use This Complete Guide as Your Resource for CostumingJean Hunnisetts threevolume Period Costumes for the Stage ampampamp Screen is the ultimate resource for the accurate costuming of women. Spanning fashionable and common dress from medieval times to the early 1900s these guides detail the patterns of the ages.ampampnbspReflecting knowledge gained from 25 years of making costumes for theater film and television Hunnisett provides scaled patterns stepbystep instructions and working drawings. Mindful of purpose the designs not only provide the right look for the times but are also fashioned using modern fabrics and sewing methods to fit the modern female figure.ampampnbspIn this most comprehensive of her three volumes Jean Hunnisett describes and illustrates in detail the dress of the 19th century in seven parts clearly demonstrating how individual pieces changed through the decades.