LibGuides: Art Courses & Research: Fashion Sources

Print Books on Fashion

Researching the fashion of cultures and eras comes up in many types of classes (literature and history, for example).

These books can be difficult to discover, so I've listed them here.

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion
Call Number: Reference 391 En19 3 volumes
The rest of these books don't have images in order to save space on this page.
A dictionary of costume and fashion : historic and modern
Call Number: Reference 746.92 P585
The illustrated encyclopaedia of costume and fashion : from 1066 to the present
Call Number: 391.009 C273
100 Ideas that changes fashion
Call Number: 687 W898 c.7731
What People Wore When: a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society
Call Number: 391.009 W556
Fashion : the twentieth century
Call Number: 391.2 F262
The complete fashion sourcebook
Call Number: 391.09 P313
Covers only the 20th century.
20th-century fashion : the complete sourcebook
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391 P313
Men's fashion in the twentieth century : from frock coats to intelligent fibres
Call Number: 391.1 C823
Stone Manufacturing Company : the first half century of clothing a changing world
Call Number: 338.7 St735
Shoes, hats and fashion accessories : a pictorial archive 1850-1940 : 2,020 illustrations
Call Number: 391 G759
Making the Amalgamated : gender, ethnicity, and class in the Baltimore clothing industry, 1899-1939
Call Number: 331.88187 Ar37
Theatre and fashion : Oscar Wilde to the suffragettes
Call Number: 792.0941 K141
Dressed for the photographer : ordinary Americans and fashion, 1840-1900
Call Number: 391 Se83
17th and 18th Century Fashion in Detail
Call Number: 391.009 H251
Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution
Call Number: 391.00944 An87w
Dressing Renaissance Florence : families, fortunes, & fine clothing
Call Number: 391 F911
On fashion
Call Number: 391 On1
Sociological analysis
Nothing in itself : complexions of fashion
Call Number: 391.009 B613
Sociological/symbolic aspects
The mode in hats and headdress, including hair styles, cosmetics, and jewelry
Call Number: 391.4 W643
Solid history of headwear with copious line drawings demonstrating every style through the years. Published in the 50's, is still quite useful.
Jewelry from Antiquity to the Present
Call Number: 739.27 P541
Vintage Jewelry Design
Call Number: 739.27 C839
7000 years of jewelry
Call Number: 739.27 Se82

Books in Oversize--larger and more images

OVERSIZED is the same call number range but in the OVERSIZED shelving.

Decades of Beauty: the changing image of women 1890's to 1990's
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.2 M919
Vintage Hats & Bonnets 1770-1970
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.43 L266
Extreme Beauty: the body transformed
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.074 K816
Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper's Bazaar 1867-1898
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.072 B625
Everyday Fashions of the Twenties
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27tw
Everyday Fashions of the Thirties
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27th
Everyday Fasions of the 1909-1920
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27t
Everyday Fashions of the Sixties
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27s
Everyday Fashions of the Forties
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27fo
Everyday Fasions of the Fifties
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.00973 Ev27f
Shoes, Hats and Fasion Accessories 1850-1940
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391 G759
19th Century Fashion in Detail
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391.009 J645
In & out of fashion
Call Number: Oversized 779.2 K672
Fashion photography

Books on Fashion Design

Drawing for designers
Call Number: 745.2 P661
Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference
Call Number: 745.4 W842

Scholarly Books on Fashion

Pre-1970 books

These books are older (from the 70's and previous), but they can still hold useful information for anything from history.

Dress clothing of the Plains Indians
Call Number: 391 K81
Publication Date: 1977
A history of fashion
Call Number: 746.92 BLA
Publication Date: 1975
Inside the fashion business: texts and readings
Call Number: 338.47 Jar
1974
Style 1930; elegance and sophistication in architecture, design, fashion, graphics, and photography
Call Number: 709.04 Se5
Publication Date: 1972
The pictorial encyclopedia of fashion
Call Number: 391 K98
Publication Date: 1968
Historic costume; a resumé of style and fashion from remote times to the nineteen-sixties
Call Number: 391 L56
Publication Date: 1961
Rose Bertin, the creator of fashion at the court of Marie- Antoinette
Call Number: 944.035 B46L
Publication Date: 1913
What People Wore
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391 G68
Publication Date: 1952
World Costumes
Call Number: OVERSIZED section 391 B72w
Publication Date: 1952