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Reading List

  • Bryson, Agnes F, Ayrshire Needlework, London, Batsford, 1989

  • Buck, Anne, Clothes & the Child: a handbook of Children's Dress in England 1500-1900, Carlton, Bedford, Ruth Bean, 1996

  • Collard, Eileen, From Toddler to Teens: an Outline of Children's Clothing circa 1780 to 1930, Ontario, C E Collard, 1973

  • Cumming, Valerie, Exploring Costume History 1500-1900, London, Batsford, 1981

  • Cunnington, Phillis and Buck, Anne, Children's Costume in England (1300-1900), London, A & C Black, 1965

  • Cunnington, Phillis and Lucas, Catherine, Costume for Births, Marriages & Deaths, London, A & C Black, 1972

  • Ewing, Elizabeth, History of Children's Costume, London, Batsford, 1977

  • Gallery of English Costume (Platt Hall, Manchester), Children's Costume (Picture Book 7), Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1959

  • Guppy, Alice, Children's Clothes 1939-1970, Poole, Blandford Press, 1978

  • Kevill-Davies, Sally, Yesterday's Children: the Antiques & History of Childcare, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991, pb 1994

  • A Lady,The Workwoman's Guide (1838), Doncaster, Bloomfield Books, 1975 (reprint)

  • Laver, James, Children's Fashions of the 19th Century, London, Batsford, 1951

  • Martin, Linda, The Way We Wore: Fashion Illustrations of Children's Wear 1870-1970, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978

  • Moore, Doris Langley, The Child in Fashion, London, Batsford, 1953

  • Page-Phillips, John, Children on Brasses,London, George Allen & Unwin, 1970

  • Rose, Clare, Children's Clothes, London, Batsford, 1989

  • Thomson, Ruth, Clothes,London, Franklin Watts, 1992

  • Toomer, Heather, Baby Wore White, Emborough, Radstock, Heather Toomer Antique  Lace, 2005

  • Walkley, Christina, Welcome Sweet Babe: A Book of Christenings, London, Peter Owen, 1987 

  • Weber-Kellermann, Ingeborg, Der Kinder Neue Kleider, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1985