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Product details Paperback 755 pages Publisher Lavolta Pr (January 31, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0963651773

The Lady Stratagem A Repository of 1820 Directions for the Toilet MantuaMaking StayMaking Millinery Etiquette Frances Grimble 0884279528140 Books Reviews

• Can't get enough of everyday life of women in past times. What a lot of FUSS with hair (and hair ornaments) and undies and stockings and corsets and garters... All that religate to the world of fetishism. And we've not even got to the dress yet. (Or frock) By reading this book, one realizes how important these things were to a lady's sense of health, betterment, confidence, and morality. Her fabrics and cut told others her place in the world. There is a section on how should a servant dress. And it's fun that Madame Grimble take five sentences to say what one sentence would. Veddy Veddy. Definitely a book for a re-enactor or history buff--like me.
• a solid book, thru and thru dedicated to the regency - romantic era. Recipes, anecdotes, patterns, dress, protocol, manners and etiquette. Every part of a ladies life is in these pages. If you can afford it, its worth the purchase! I wish I had bought it sooner. For the avid Regency reenactor / researcher. Awesome details. This author does a spectacular job. check out all of her titles. They are all as well written!
• This entire series from Frances Grimble is the most astounding amount of compiled research we've ever seen! A valuable resource for costumers, re-enactors, history aficionados, or anyone wanting a comprehensive look at these fashions and the culture surrounding them.I purchased the entire set for my wife (costumer, historian...) and we were completely impressed with both the quality of the content as well as the layout and organization of the series.
  
  Absolutely recommended...worth every penny!
• That is exactly what I've found myself doing in the months since this huge volume came to me I've kept it very close at hand.
  
  If you're interested in the Regency period and want to get beyond secondary retellings of the details of ladies' lives in the era, this is a terrific book to have. The title might have been "The Lady's Compendium", so detailed are the contents. Just about anything touching modes and manners is covered here from the expected, such as fashion and etiquette, to the esoteric, such as recipes for dying the hair or dying fabric or recovering shoes. In between are rare original resources I've desired for a long time period millinery, glovemaking, multiple patterns for stays...and for costumers, directions for making up dresses and outerwear. The sections on trims are super. If you've longed to sew the rouleaux, ruches, scallops and vandykes and draperies that decked women's gowns in the 1820s, they're right here.
  
  Many of the manuals the author translated from French (in period-style language) and so will be new to the vast majority of readers this isn't a rehash of content we've seen before. Plus, Frances Grimble has included long passages from British sources, as well as notes when American versions of the same source omitted or added material. Why is this important? It reveals some of what the original publishers expected would be different practices among French, British, and American readers.
  
  The text frequently talks about what is in fashion, or considered good taste, by making comparisons to fashions and practices of past years. This is valuable too, because it helps readers who are interested in early Regency styles and manners...the bulk of the resources included in the volume date to the late 1820s.
  
  Finally, because you are reading the originals largely in full, not in tidbit quotations, you get the delicious experience of stepping into an era long past...complete with the original authors' side notes and sometimes snarky comments on provincial habits or personal pet peeves. Fun!
  
  If I had one wish, it would be that the vast sewing section in the middle of the book contained more precise diagrams of dress construction methods. Those of us who are visual learners and of middling sewing skills may find it tricky to visualize what the writers are describing. As a test, I attempted to replicate constructing side seams on an unlined Regency dress; it worked out, but I did need to consult another volume. One might wish that the author had followed the lead of her early volume, After a Fashion How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles, which is heavy with detailed illustrations. However, given the mammoth task of translating hundreds and hundreds of pages of text and hunting down comparison sources to include, I can hardly complain if the author ran out of some steam on drawings!
  
  I believe that readers wanting to understand the underpinnings of looking and acting well in Regency times will value this book as I do, and make it a close companion to their volumes of Jane Austen, their histories of life under Napoleon, or their copies of Janet Arnold's costuming manuals. My copy already has dog-eared pages and a coffee stain -- in this household, a sign of love.
• This is a wonderful book, meticulously researched and beautifully written (and translated).
  
  Drawn largely from domestic and etiquette manuals of the 1820s, The Lady's Stratagem offers advice, diagrams and precise instructions on fashion, needlework, millinery, health and beauty - including how to make your own cosmetics and corsets - physical deportment and the correct behaviour to be adopted by the middle-class French, American and British women and girls at whom the manuals were originally aimed.
  
  The well-illustrated section on clothing of all kinds is wonderfully detailed. Embroidery and knitting patterns are also included, from the finest beaded purses through gentlemen's waistcoats to knitted pantaloons. The Lady's Stratagem would be a terrific source book for anyone seeking to recreate authentic costume from this period.
  
  Author Frances Grimble states in her introduction that her book is also aimed at romantic and historical novelists, who will certainly find huge amounts of information and inspiration in The Lady's Strategem. Anyone interested in women's lives in the early 1800s will also find so much to enjoy here.
  
  Meticulously researched, beautifully written, indexed, illustrated and produced, The Lady's Stratagem is an absolute delight.
• I received this book for Christmas and it's spectacular. This covers social "norms" for middle class people. It offers advice to the young woman on everything from making one's own corset and clothing in general to "Politeness in a Business or Profession". Period advice on cleaning teeth and dressing hair, to recovering shoes and knitting are included in this amazing work.
  
  Frances Grimble has given us a little `clip' of history with this large volume (755 pages including glossary and index). This is a translation from the original French, of a series of instructional manuals originally published in the 1820's.
  
  The advice and the information offered through this wonderful, wonderful book will assist and guide anyone looking for information of life, manners, attitudes and societal views for the first decades of the 19th century. And because it takes time for these attitudes, manners, and views to develop, this offers insight into the American Federal period, Regency, Napoleonic and Restoration eras.