Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical
A practical guide to fancy-dress, historical and stage costume written by Eliza Aria and published by Macmillan in London in 1906, aimed at women planning costume-ball and theatrical dress. The plates are soft sepia wash drawings of single female figures — medieval trailing gowns, hooded veils, Elizabethan bodices, eighteenth-century bonnets — with loose brushed backgrounds useful for silhouette references and monochrome figure cut-outs.
