Talbot Hughes

DRESS DESIGN ACCOUNT OF COSTUME FOR ARTISTS & DRESSMAKERS by TALBOT - Annotated Talbot Hughes

The designing and making of Costume is a craft-sometimes artistic-with which designs for fancy dress, he based them on the Five Orders of Architecture, we are all more or less concerned. It is also, in its own way, one of the living arts, that is, it is still carried forward experimentally by experts directly attached to the "business." It has not yet been subjected to rules of good taste formulated by Academies and Universities; but when Inigo Jones, the great architect, was asked to make some and ponderous fancies they were.