Dress Skirt Books

It's odd that of all of Amelia Bloomer's accomplishments, from being a suffragette to an editor of a women's newspaper, her greatest attribution is the bloomer. But the tone of the book is very appropriate: being a proper lady is silly. And sometimes, you have to be a rebel to cause change.

This book is one of my new all-time favorites. This is one instance where women have bucked the system and persued equal rights. Yes, even when it came to clothing women were restricted. This book shows that even if just one person will speak out, he/she can make a difference. Thanks to Ms. Bloomer, I can go out comfortably in my favorite pair of jeans without stares and jeers.

Ms. Corey's fun and face-paced adaptation of Amelia Bloomer's story is a fantastic look into women's roles in American history. I say we need more books like this to help empower our youth. It is a great read with a powerful message.

Amelia Bloomer was not a proper lady. All the other ladies thought she was ridiculous. she would protest, start her own buisnesses with other women. Amelia Bloomer was always looking for a way to fight for womens rights, and to change the way women had to dress. But the world just wan't ready for Amelia Bloomer yet. Until one day when her friends cousin brought somthing amazing into Amelias life. It was a different type of dress . It had pants. Amelia was amazed by this outfit. right away she made her own. Pretty soon women all over the world wanted to wear (what Amelia called) Bloomers. They made then in plaid, blue, pink, and many other designs and colors. Amelia Bloomer made a big differenc for women. to find out what else dhe did for women read this book. i think you'll love it

It used to be that way. Now, girls can wear pants if they like, and well, men wear pants too, always, no skirts. One day, Amelia Bloomer is sick of little girls looking too nice to play, and skirts are NOT practically for fun. Amelia takes a stand and makes.....BLOOMERS!
~Erin
Age 11

Synopsis: Amelia Bloomer lived in a time before women gained the right to
vote. Many ladies did not work, but Amelia Bloomer started her own newspaper. She believed it was foolish that women wore heavy, wide dresses with corsets so tight they fainted easily. A friend comes to visit Amelia, and brings her cousin, who is wearing new clothes: she wore a short skirt of baggy pants legs. Amelia copied the pattern and made her own, which she wore around town. Townspeople were shocked at the unseemly sight, but when Amelia wrote about the clothes in her newspaper many women thought the idea was brilliant. Bloomers became a new style of clothing.

Evaluation: You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer will provide children with
knowledge of the women?s rights movement. Using clear language and comparisons, readers also learn about women?s fashion during the early 1900s. This book offers insight into the restricted roles of women, who were somewhat trapped in their heavy clothing. Teachers will find the author?s note helpful in providing background and additional information regarding Amelia Bloomer, Bloomers, and the fight for women?s rights. Paintings in the book were done in opaque watercolors. The paintings will provide visual representations of items readers may not be familiar with, such as corsets, petticoats a printing press and bloomers. Humor is used in the artwork to demonstrate how restrictive the clothing of the time was.

I am very pleased with this book and I think it gives a load of information for a very reasonable price.

The book (together with vol.2) is overfilled with all kinds of garments you can imagine and for each sort of garment there are always many styles.

It is not directly a drafting book, it does not tell you how to draft your own bodice etc. by using your measurements, but the method of using the patterns and the enlarging rulers is very close to that and, as I think, it might produce a very good substitution for a custom-drafted dress with saving a lot of your time and being very simple to do. It is something between custom drafting and pre-sized patterns, because you create the garments by using your bust and back length measurement, which are the two most important measurements for making a garment suited to your proportions and it will probably need only little easy modifications like adding/substracting from waist and hip width and maybe some changes for the front length. But all possible and most frequent modifications are very well explained in the book.

It is all written in such a way that even with no or little knowledge of drafting, you'll be able to produce a probably very well fitted garments.

For a drafting professional, it's a good help when doing things like skirts, especially draped overskirts and all garments creating a shape or silhouette that is hard to figure out. Even if you won't use the patterns for enlarging and draft the things yourself, you can very well keep to the shape of the patterns as you can see, unlike in so many pattern books, NUMBERS.

I think this book has the best ratio of the price and the information given of all costume book I've come through. It's a pity that there are no such books for earlier periods:-(

This is a great book for seamstresses with some experience(I think it would be too hard for beginners.It would be good if you have some comprehenesion on sizing(drafting patterns yourself for example)but that isn't even necessary.I think it would be easier though:)

Frances Grimble gives clear instructions for changing patterns to size and even to different body shapes(large bust, short back etc.
You do need to take some time for this, but well, you'll have an authentic pattern in your hands, how great is that?;)And there are so many in this book! I was having a very hard time finding real historical patterns in The Netherlands(so far found one french journal from 1902)and I feel like a kid in a candystore now.:)I <3 this book already.

You can make a complete outfit, from undergarments to overgarments.

If you have some sewing experience and you love this period it is really a great book!



Amazon's service is excellent too. It didn't take very long for the item to arrive(from US to the Netherlands)(with one step faster shipping, expidited?)it was even a lot faster then the estimated arrival time.

This book is wonderful. I believe I own every book Frances Grimble has written and anxiously await more. The variety of patterns is amazing and allows the experienced sewer to create their own designs from various components, like sleeves and collars. This sure beats trying to decipher the patterns in an original 1890's issue of Harpers!

This book contains patterns for the following:
corsets, hoopskirts and bustles (some)
underclothing and negligee wear (quite a few)
day and evening skirts (only about four)
day bodices (quite a few)
evening bodices (some)
overskirts (some)
polonaises (some)
day dresses (quite a few)

some = around ten
quite a few = over 20

I would recommend this book for anyone who likes victorian costuming. It not only works as a pattern book, but as a source book, having lots of pictures you can use for reference. Even if you just look through it, it really can help you understand the styles of that era.

The pictures and descriptions within the book are an excellent reference if you are researching and intending on recreating one of these beautiful designs. Advanced knowledge of sewing skills is a must for those who wish to recreate these (definantly not for the novice sewer). Frances Grimble, you've done it again. Please keep them coming. I will buy every book you put out.

Fourth grader Miata learns the importance of friendship and the need to act responsibly when she realizes that she has left her mother's prized folklore skirt on the school bus. Since she needs to wear it for a Sunday performance, she sets about to break into the bus-encountering various difficulties. Gradually she realizes what a tangled web she has woven once she chose to deceive adults, instead of requesting their aid. Soto understands and explains the lifestyle of Hispanic-Americans, but he lets his protagonist do it on her own, skirting the truth. Without a confession to relieve her private torment, Miata never makes things right with her parents, who remain in suspicious ignorance. This short story might send a divisive message to children trying to make their way in the adult world.

This book is a great book because it teaches you some lessons because Miata Ramirez lost her skirt and she was going to wear it the next day for her dance called folklo'rico. But her mother told her not to take it out of her closet because the skirt was important. I reccomend the book the teachers to read it to their class so they could enjoy the book like I did. Miata Ramirez was upset and scared because she thought she had lost the skirt forever! But she didn't she found it in a public transportation bus! She almost got in trouble because the skirt was in the bus and the bus was closed. Her father almost found out that she had lied to him about the skirt because she told her mom and dad that she was going to her freinds house But she didn't she went to look for her special skirt. Gary Soto is a great author because hr writes interesting books.Read his books because they are creative. Almost all of his books that I've read are Mexican folk storys. Read it Please!!!!!!!!

If you know Soto's work, then you can rest assured this is another excellent example of the magic he creates with the written word. The Hispanic family is representative of the culture and values. Fifth graders (even though the reading level is lower) in my classroom, and especially my ESL students, enjoy the book. Soto has packed the book with colorful similies and this lends well for Writing Worshop.

I was so excited to find a new book about sewing children's clothes, since most books were written in the 1970's and 1980's.
Basically, this is a book about pattern making for children's basics. The problem is you need to have a good deal of sewing knowledge before tackling this. Descriptions of the idividual sewing projects are very brief. There are nice color pictures though. The embellishing ideas are listed very briefly with no directions. There was so much potential here if there would have been more instruction of sewing details, variations and embellishments.