Getting started : Setting up : The proper dress form ; Measurements ; Adapting the dress form ; Proper care of your dress form ; Draping basics : Tools and equipment ; Fabric ; Straight of grain ; Listen to what the fabric is telling you ; Start with a fitted sloper ; Transferring your pattern to paper -- Early, unstructured garments : Ancient Greek costume : The Greek Doric chiton ; The Greek himation ; The Greek Doric peplos ; The Greek Ionic chiton ; The Greek diplas ; Roman costume : The Roman tunic ; The Roman toga ; Byzantine costume : The Byzantine tunic ; The Byzantine paludamentum ; Early Gothic costume : Early Gothic tunics ; Early Gothic overgarments -- Cut and shaped to fit: the Gothic period : The man's padded doublet ; The man's fitted cotehardie ; The man's pleated jerkin ; The standing collar ; The woman's fitted gown (cote or kirtle) ; The unisex houppelande (A-line gown) ; Woman's high-waisted gown (Houppelane) with fitted bodice -- The height of artificial silhouette : A woman's Elizabethan bodice ; A man's Elizabethan doublet with a padded peascod belly ; The man's Elizabethan jerkin -- The men return to softness ... : Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) slashed doublet with a waist seam ; Draping an early-seventeenth-century (cavalier) doublet without a waist seam ; The birth of the coat and vest ; Draping a late-seventeenth-century coat -- ... While the women remain tightly corseted : Draping the Basque bodice ; Draping the mid-seventeenth-century bodice skirts ; Draping the late-seventeenth-century (Restoration) mantua -- Introduction of tailoring to the man's costume : Draping an early-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping a mid-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an eighteenth-century vest (waistcoat) -- Variety of silhouette in eighteenth-century women's costumes : Draping the robe a l'Anglaise ; Draping the robe a la Francaise or Watteau-backed gown ; Draping the sack (sacque) gown -- Neoclassical elegance : Draping a chemise gown ; Draping an open robe or over gown ; Draping a double-breasted Spencer jacket -- Revolutionary menswear : Draping a late-eighteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century coat ; Draping an early-nineteenth-century waistcoat ; Single-breasted waistcoat with collar cut-in-one with body ; Double-breasted waistcoat with shawl collar -- Romantic womenswear : Draping an 1820s gown ; Draping an 1830s bodice ; Draping an 1840s bodice ; Draping a mid-nineteenth-century bodice -- The Victorian gentleman : Draping the mid-nineteenth-century frock coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century morning coat ; Draping the mid-nineteenth-century tail coat ; Draping the sack coat and the Norfolk jacket -- The Victorian lady : Draping an 1860s jacket bodice ; A brief word about bustles ; Draping a caplet to be worn over a high bustle ; Draping a "mermaid" or "fishtail: gown ; Draping a low bustle gown.