Most Traditional Costumes

Prost! based on traditional german dirndl dresses, the oktoberfest fraulein costume features a corset styled dress with an attached white shirt top. It also comes with an apron and pettiskirt.

Bring the diversity of the world into your classroom with this colorful, inviting Russian girl costume. Based on authentic clothing, this child-sized easy-care and easy-wear costume resembles Ethnic ceremonial apparel.

Situated far to the north of the Scottish mainland, the Shetlands are famous for the dampness of their climate and the excellence of their wool — a pair of distinctions that fostered the development of a vibrant form of patterned knitting. Fair Isle's unusual technique employs two colors in each row; the wool not in use is stranded along the back in short loops, resulting in an extremely warm and weatherproof double fabric.In this definitive guide, the author shows how any circular-method kn... [Read More]

Prost! based on traditional german dirndl dresses, the oktoberfest fraulein costume features a corset styled dress with an attached white shirt top. It also comes with an apron and pettiskirt.

THE GIRL KING is the captivating new feature by Finland-born filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki (MAMA AFRICA, ROAD NORTH), one of world cinema s most versatile and acclaimed talents. The English-language film is a depiction of several years in the life of the 17th century Queen Kristina of Sweden, the Girl King. Born in 1626 and queen by the age of six, Kristina was the most famous woman in the world during her lifetime and remains a controversial figure in Sweden to this day and one of the most influen... [Read More]

This film features the Bolshoi Ballet in Diaghilev productions of Stravinsky's "Firebird" and "Petrushka," as well as Fokine's ballet set to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade." Andris Liepa is a featured dancer. The DVD also contains a 17 minute bonus film

Christmas crimes hit close to home for Boston’s favorite art sleuths. “Charlotte MacLeod’s mysteries are witty and full of humor” (Maine Crime Writers).  The angry old men of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish club celebrate yuletide doing what they do best: eating, drinking, and greeting the season of giving with a spirited “bah, humbug!” Though well past sixty, Jem Kelling is a relative infant compared to some of the club’s elder statesmen, and he has waited decades to host t... [Read More]

What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians, and students alike can choose to follow the path of fashion through the centuries, or study in detail the contrasting styles of individual clothing and accessories. Silhouettes reveal the shape of style through the ages, detailed cross-references d... [Read More]