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✶ Study ✶

Welcome to my study! Here you will find links to reading, videos, etc. that I've encountered during my serious and unserious research endeavours. I haven't read everything here front to back yet, but I'm working on it, and this is meant to be a place to keep and share references :-)

This page is still incomplete. I'd like to create more sections to share book reviews and little articles on things I'm interested in.


Historical sewing & needlework

Antique Pattern Library

Artistic Ladies' Tailor System by Vienna ladies' tailoring institute, 1898

Casneau's guide for artistic dress cutting and making by Alice A. Casneau, 1895

Medieval Clothing Pages by Cynthia Virtue and other authors, 2000-2011

Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking by Bertha Banner, 1898

Libro de geometria, practica y traça by Joan de Alcega, c. 1580

The self-balancing system by Dittmar & Sheifer, c. 1888

The tailors' guide by Luman E. Cole, 1868


Historical fashion

Abiti Antichi

Archivio Arte Moda

La Couturière Parisienne

Dress, and how to improve it by Frances S. Parker, 1897

The Victorian Web (this website discusses all sorts of topics relating to the Victorian era, not only fashion)


Lolita & Ouji

Gothic & Lolita Bible Pattern Guide by Bunnyhuns on Livejournal, 2015

Lolita History Gallery

Miss Carol Belle (a wonderful resource for lolita and ouji sewing patterns)

Interesting reading on lolita lifestyle:

101 Lolita Lifestyle Ideas by Skyewishes on Livejournal, 2005

Ask a Lolita: The Lolita Lifestyle by lolita-tips on Tumblr, 2019

Classic Lolita Lifestyle by Byron's Muse on Wordpress, 2015

Lolita Handbook on Livejournal (2006)

Lolita History Gallery

The Pure Maiden: Lifestyle Lolita to the Extreme by F Yeah Lolita, 2012


Queer writings

ATM Manifesto (also known as the Bisexual manifesto) by Anything That Moves magazine, 1996 - 1998

Digital Transgender Archive

Femmes Unite! #2 by F.A.G. (Femme Affinity Group), 2007

From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland by Louis Sullivan, 1990

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, 1993 (this book touches on heavy topics; look up a content warning before reading)

Violets

Currently reading: Nothing :-(