Stage costume reading list

Anderson, Barbara with Cletus R. Anderson. Costume Design. Thomson Learning, 1998

Anderson, Jack with Janet Light, Malcolm McCormick. The Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo: The Golden Age of Costume and Set Design, 1938 to 1944. Hudson Hill Press, 2003

Huaixiang, Tan. Costume Craftwork on a Budget: Clothing, 3 - D Makeup, Wigs, Millinery and Accessories. Focal Press, 2007

Huaixiang, Tan. Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers. Focal Press, 2004

Ingham, Rosemary with Elizabeth Covey. The Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers. Greenwood Press, 1992

Motley, Mullin, Michael, ed. Designing and Making Stage Costumes. Herbert Press, 1992

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design. Harper Collins Press, 2007

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Fifty Designers/ Fifty Costumes: Concept to Character. Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences Press, 2004

Peacock, John. Costume 1066 to the Present: A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History. Thames and Hudson, 1986

Warne, L. Roland. Costume (EyeWitness Guides). Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1992

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