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 fashionOVERSIZED is the same call number range but in the OVERSIZED shelving.
Decades of Beauty: the changing image of women 1890's to 1990's
Vintage Hats & Bonnets 1770-1970
Extreme Beauty: the body transformed
Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper's Bazaar 1867-1898
Everyday Fashions of the Twenties
Everyday Fashions of the Thirties
Everyday Fasions of the 1909-1920
Everyday Fashions of the Sixties
Everyday Fashions of the Forties
Everyday Fasions of the Fifties
Shoes, Hats and Fasion Accessories 1850-1940
Drawing for designers
Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and differenceThese books are older (from the 70's and previous), but they can still hold useful information for anything from history.
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