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Recommended Books
The Magic Garment: Principles of Costume Design
by Rebecca Cunningham 

Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers
by Liz Covey, Rosemary Ingham

The Costume Technician's Handbook 3/e
by Rosemary Ingham, Liz Covey

Costume Design: Techniques of Modern Masters
by
Lynn Pecktal

Costume Design (Screencraft)
by
Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Costume Design 101: The Business and Art of Creating Costumes for Film and Television
by Richard La Motte

20000 Years of Fashion
by Francois Boucher

Mirror, Mirror: A Social History of Fashion
by
Michael Batterberry, Ariane Ruskin Batterberry

Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers
by Tan Huaixiang

Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
by Elisabetta Drudi and Tiziana Paci

Costume Construction
by Katherine Evans-Strand

Patternmaking for Fashion Design 4/e
by Helen Joseph-Armstrong

Draping for Apparel Design
by Helen Joseph-Armstrong

Patterns for Theatrical Costumes: Garments, Trims, and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915
by
Katherine Strand Holkeboer

Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew
by Elissa K. Meyrich

The Complete Book of Sewing
by
DK Publishing