Sharon Sobel is Professor of Theatre and Costume Designer at University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has designed and/or draped costumes for over 100 productions at her home institutions as well as at The Bermuda Festival, The Juilliard School, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Long Island Stage, New York International Fringe Festival, Queens Theatre in the Park, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Asolo Center for Performing Arts, Sarasota Opera, The Alley Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Opera Omaha, Nebraska Repertory Theatre and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. She has also designed and draped costumes for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. Professor Sobel is a member of United Scenic Artists of America and recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion.

Introduction Overview and objectives
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Early, Unstructured Garments
Chapter 3 Cut and shaped to fit
Chapter 4 The Height of Artificial Silhouette
Chapter 5 The Men return to softness.
Chapter 6 .while the women remain tightly laced
Chapter 7 The introduction of tailoring to the man's costume
Chapter 8 Variety of fit in the 18th century woman's costume
Chapter 9 Neoclassical elegance
Chapter 10 Revolutionary menswear
Chapter 11 Romantic womenswear
Chapter 12 The Victorian gentleman
Chapter 13 The Victorian lady
Chapter 14 Skirts
Glossary
Bibilography