I love old books on fashion so when I came across Patricia L. Rowe's"Shorthand Fashion Sketching" ...I had to get it!
There's an Introduction written in 1959 from Rowe while living in Captiva,Florida. She explains how the pages of the book is designed to teach in the quickest possible time, by the shortest possible method, how to sketch fashions in the most practical way.
Lessons include The Basic Fashion Figure-Front, Three Quarter View and Smaller Size. Section II describes The Figure in Motion. Other sections include, Basic fashions from blouses and necklines ,collars,sleeves,basic skirts to hemlines,hats and coats. It concludes with fabrics,textures and patterns,techniques in pen,brush and pencil. I loves the historic costume section. Take a peek........
makes me smile and she is really sporting those black shoes. Her hair is priceless. 
