“A look at LA’s bustling Fashion District,” Locale Magazine, June 2016 (via localemagazine.com)
L. A. Fashion District visitor information and map
The Santee Alley, a popular shopping area in the Fashion District, known for its flee market vibe
...See also: “Dress,” “Arms and armour,” “Fashion plate and costume book,” “Jewellery,” “Silk,” “Tattoo,” Oxford Art Online (There are also specialized discussions of fashion and clothing within articles devoted to specific regions)
Several industry journals exist online and in print. Here are links to a few:
AC magazine (Chartered by the Accessories Council)
California Apparel News (“Reportage and analysis of the apparel industry”)
W Magazine (Fashion, culture, etc.)
Women's Wear Daily (“The retailer's daily newspaper")
Kappe Library holds current issues of these commercial magazines:
American Apparel Producers’ Network
American Textile Machinery Association
California Fashion Association
Garment Contractors Association of Southern California
Garment Worker Center (Los Angeles based organization)
International Textile and Apparel Association
National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment
United States Fashion Industry Association
The complete costume dictionary, by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski, Scarecrow Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
FF Channel (collection of runway shows via YouTube)
Fashion through history, Volume 1 & Volume 2, by Giovanna Motta & Antonello Biagini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 (via Ebook Central)
FashionDex (Apparel manufacturers’ resources)
Vestoj: the platform for critical thinking on fashion (brings together academia and industry “to combine academic theory, critical thinking and…glamour”)
Adkin, Neil, “The Teaching of the Fathers concerning Footwear and Gait,” Latomus, October/December 1983, p.885-886
The Bata Shoe Museum (Toronto)
Brown, William, The art of shoe making, Global Media, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
The Fan Museum (Greenwich, London)
Footwear News (WWD)
Giorcelli, Cristina & Paula Rabinowitz (editors), Accessorizing the body: habits of being, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Hunter, John & Ann Woodward, Ritual in early Bronze Age grave goods, Oxbow Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Loren, Diana DiPaolo, The archaeology of clothing and bodily adornment in colonial America, University Press of Florida, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Luxury Daily (“the news leader in luxury marketing”)
McCrossen, Alexis, “… Pocket watches and time consciousness in the nineteenth‐century United States,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2010, p.1-30
Phillips, Clare, Jewelry: from antiquity to the present, Thames & Hudson, NK7304.P54 1996
Shoe Icons, the “first Russian virtual shoe museum” (English language descriptions)
Simone Handbag Museum (Korean and English)
Smith, Malcolm, Hats: a very UNnatural history, Michigan State University Press, 2020 (via Ebook Central)
Spectr: International Eyewear Fashion Magazine (formerly Eyewear Magazine)
Turgeon, Laurier G., “Material culture and cross-cultural consumption: French beads in North America, 1500-1700,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, Fall/Winter 2001-2002, p.85-107
Veldmeijer, André J., Tutankhamun’s footwear: studies in ancient Egyptian footwear, Sidestone Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Watchtime (Wristwatch industry)
WatchUSeek forum
Crip Couture (Chun-Shan (Sandie) Li's collection of wearable art)
Farra, Emily, "This is what's missing in fashion's inclusivity movement," Vogue, August 27, 2021
Jackson, Liz & Jaipreet Virdi, "Beyond functional: unraveling the long line of disability fashion," Bitch Media, November 1, 2021
Thomas, Stephanie, "Fashion styling for people with disabilities," TEDx Talks, September 14, 2016
“3D-printed body architecture,” Architectural Design, November/December 2017 (Theme issue)
Clifford, Marie J., “Helena Rubinstein's Beauty Salons, Fashion, and Modernist Display,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2003, p.83-108 (PDF via Jstor)
"The evolution of fashion shows," Glam Observer, December 8, 2021 (Brief history and video compilation of memorable runway shows)
“Factory complex [Florsheim Shoe Co., Chicago, Ill.],” Progressive architecture, July 1956, p.108-110
Fornell, Andreas, “The ceremony of shopping,” Domus, January 2015, p.92-99 (On retail spaces in Los Angeles, Paris, and Australia)
Gorman, Carma R., “Fitting Rooms: The Dress Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright,” Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 1995, p.259-277 (PDF via Jstor)
Hanisch, Ruth, Absolutely fabulous!: architecture and fashion, Prestel, TT507 .H36 2006
Hodge, Brooke, Skin + bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture, Thames & Hudson, NA682.P67 H63 2006 (Office)
Kiaer, Christina, “The Russian Constructivist flapper dress,” Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2001, p.185-243 (PDF via Jstor)
Koda, Harold, Extreme beauty: the body transformed, Museum of Modern Art, GT503 .K63 2001
Payne, Jason, “Hair and Makeup,” Log, #17, Fall 2009, p.41-48 (PDF via Jstor)
“Retail,” Architectural Record, May 2013, p.123-134 (Building type study)
Rosa, Joseph, Glamour: fashion + industrial design + architecture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TT507.G553 2004
Zilka, Leanne, Floppy logic: experimenting in the territory between architecture, fashion and textiles, Actar, NA2840 .Z55 2020
Banks, Ingrid, Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, & Black Women's Consciousness, New York University Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)
Baudelaire, Charles, "In praise of cosmetics," from The Painter of Modern Life, 1863 (via vestoj.com)
Choi, Na-Young, “Symbolism of hairstyles in Korea and Japan,” Asian Folklore Studies, Vol.65, #1, 2006, p.69-86 (PDF via Jstor)
Gonzalez, Anthony, Cosmetology, Global Media, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
International Fragrance Association (IFRA)
Jones, Geoffrey, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry, Oxford University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Connecting Afro futures: fashion x hair x design, Kerber Verlag, NK1487 .C66 2019
Lowe, Scott, Hair, Bloomsbury Academic, GT2290 .L68 2016
Martin, Morag, Selling beauty: cosmetics, commerce, and French society, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Ohloff, Günther, Scent and fragrance: the fascination of odors and their chemical perspectives, Springer-Verlag, TP98.3 .O3413 1994
Ovid, Medicamina Faciei Femineae (The Art of Painting the Face), 1 BCE
Rifelj, Carol de Dobay, Coiffures: hair in nineteenth-century French literature and culture, University of Delaware Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
White, Constance, How to slay: inspiration from the queens & kings of Black Style, Rizzoli, TT504.4 .W495 2018
Bolton, Andrew, Manus x machina: fashion in the age of technology, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, GT596 .B65 2016
Centner, Marianne & Frances Vereker, Fashion designer’s handbook for Adobe Illustrator, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Cooke, Andy, Graphic design for art, fashion, film, architecture, photography, product design & everything in between, Prestel Verlag, NC997 .C66 2018
Elliot, Sam, Knit: innovation in fashion, art, design, Laurence King Publishing, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Mbonu, Ezinma, Fashion design research, Laurence King Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
McKelvey, Kathryn & Janine Munslow, Fashion design: process, innovation and practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Nakamichi, Tomoko, Pattern magic, Laurence King Publishing, TT520 .N35 2010 (see also: Pattern magic 2, TT520 .N35 2011; Pattern magic: stretch fabrics, TT520 .N35 2012)
Szkutnicka, Basia, Flats: technical drawing for fashion, Laurence King Publishing, TT509 .S95 2017
Volpintesta, Laura, The language of fashion design, Quayside Publishing Group, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Mishra, Sanjay, Wearable android: Android wear & Google Fit app development, Wiley, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Pedersen, Isabel, Ready to wear: a rhetoric of wearable computers and reality-shifting media, Parlor Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Ryan, Susan Elizabeth, “Re-Visioning the Interface: Technological Fashion as Critical Media,” Leonardo, 2009, Vol. 42, # 4, p.307-313
Schäffner, Wolfgang, “The Telephonic Revolution of the Digital Image,” Grey Room, #43, Spring 2011, p.145-155 (via Jstor)
Seymour, Sabine, Fashionable technology: the intersection of design, fashion, science, and technology, Springer, TS1767 .S486 2009
Thomas de la Peña, Carolyn, “Designing the Electric Body: Sexuality, Masculinity and the Electric Belt in America, 1880-1920, Journal of Design History, Vol.14, #4, 2001, p.275-289 (PDF via Jstor)
Wasik, Bill, “Why wearable tech will be as big as the smartphone, Wired, December 2013
Wearable (reviews and commentary on wearable technology)
Wearable Computing at the MIT Media Lab
Wearable Technologies (tech-related news and information on wearable technologies conferences)
Brekke-Aloise, Linzy, “’A very pretty business’: fashion and consumer culture in antebellum American prints,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2014, p.191-212 (PDF via Jstor)
Carlson, Elizabeth, “Cubist Fashion: mainstreaming Modernism after the Armory,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2014, p.1-28 (PDF via Jstor)
Carter, Ruth E., The art of Ruth E. Carter : costuming Black history and the Afro-future, from Do the right thing to Black Panther, Chronicle Books, TT505.C3757 A3 2023
Davis, Mary E., Ballets Russes style: Diaghilev’s dancers and Paris fashion, Reaktion Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Joslin, Katherine & Daneen Wardrop, Crossings in text and textile, University of New Hampshire press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Koppen, Randi, Virginia Woolf, fashion and literary modernity, Edinburgh University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Miller, Janice, Fashion and music, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Schweitzer, Marlis, When Broadway was the runway: theater, fashion, and American culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Siegfried, Susan L., “The visual culture of fashion and the classical ideal in post-revolutionary France,” The Art Bulletin, March 2015, p.77-99 (via Jstor)
Troy, Nancy J., “The theatre of fashion: staging haute couture in early 20th century France,” Theatre Journal, March 2001, p.1-32 (PDF via Jstor)
Amies, Hardy, “What makes fashion?” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, June 1964, p.473-490 (PDF via Jstor)
Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode is comprised of three central bodies: Haute Couture, Couturiers’ and Fashion Designers’ Ready-to-Wear, and Men’s Fashion. The syndicate exist to promote French fashion culture, and to bolster Paris “in its role as worldwide fashion capital.”
Joseph, Abigail, “A wizard of silks and tulle”: Charles Worth and the queer origins of couture,” Victorian Studies, Winter 2014, p.251-279 (PDF via Jstor)
Martin, Richard & Harold Koda, Haute Couture, Metropolitan Museum of Art: H.N. Abrams, NK4709.M37 1995
HISTORY
Antonelli, Paola & Michelle Millar Fisher, ITEMS: is fashion modern? Museum of Modern Art, GT596 .A57 2017
Arnold, Rebecca, Fashion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Bolton, Andrew, Manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, GT596 .B65 2016
De Monchaux, Nicholas, Spacesuit: fashioning Apollo, MIT Press, TL1550 .D46 2011
“Dress,” “Arms and armour,” “Fashion plate and costume book,” “Jewellery,” “Silk,” “Tattoo,” Oxford Art Online (There are also specialized discussions of fashion and clothing within articles devoted to specific regions)
“Fashion, costume & jewellery,” ArtStor (Over 28,000 images available, from prehistory to the present)
Fukai, Akiko, Fashion: a history from the 18th to the 20th century, Taschen, GT580 .F37 2002
Granata, Francesca, “Deconstruction fashion: carnival and the grotesque,” Journal of Design History, Vol.26, #2, 2013, p.182-198 (PDF via Jstor)
Hart, Avril, Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries, Rizzoli, GT585.H37 1998
Harvey, John, Men in Black, Reaktion Books, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Haulman, Kate, Politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America, University of North Carolina Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Joseph, Abigail, “A wizard of silks and tulle”: Charles Worth and the queer origins of couture,” Victorian Studies, Winter 2014, p.251-279 (PDF via Jstor)
Laver, James, Costume and fashion; a concise history, Thames and Hudson, GT511.L39 1995
Motta, Giovanna & Antonello Biagini, Fashion through history, Volume 1 & Volume 2, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 (via Ebook Central)
Olson, Kelly, “Masculinity, appearance, and sexuality: dandies in Roman antiquity,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, May 2014, p.182-205 (PDF via Jstor)
Steele, Valerie (editor), Pink, the history of a punk, pretty, powerful color, Thames & Hudson, BF789 .C7 S74 2018
Wilcox, Claire & Valerie D. Mendes, 20th-century fashion in detail, Thames & Hudson, TT507 .W4555 2018
THEORY
Auslander, Leora, "Deploying material culture to write the history of gender and sexuality: the example of clothing and textiles," Clio. Women, Gender, History, 2014, #40, p.157-178 (via JStor)
Buckley, Cheryl & Hazel Clark, “Conceptualizing fashion in everyday lives,” Design Issues, Autumn 2012, p.18-28 (PDF via Jstor)
Evans, Caroline, “The Ontology of the Fashion Model,” AA Files, #63, 2011, p.56-69 (PDF via Jstor)
Harvey, John, Clothes, Acumen, 2008 (via Ebook Central)
Leopardi, Giacomo, "Dialogue between Fashion and Death," in Operette morali, 1835
Nicklas, Charlotte, “One essential thing to learn is color,” Journal of Design History, Vol.27, #3, 2014, p.218-236 (PDF via JStor)
Robinson, Dwight E., “The importance of fashions in taste to business history: and introductory essay,” The Business History Review, Spring/Summer 1963, p.5-36 (PDF via Jstor)
Simmel, Georg, "Fashion," in On Individuality and Social Forms, University of Chicago Press, HM51.S537
Troy, Nancy J.,” The Logic of Fashion,” The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, #19, 1995, p.1-7 (PDF via Jstor)
Troy, Nancy J., “The theatre of fashion: staging haute couture in early 20th century France,” Theatre Journal, March 2001, p.1-32 (PDF via Jstor)
Vestoj: the platform for critical thinking on fashion
Art Deco: a stunning guide to the most celebrated era of the 20th-century art and design, Quantum Publishing, Grange Books, N6494.A7 A78 2008
Greenbaum, Toni, “Bizarre Bijoux: Surrealism in jewelry,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.20, 1994 (via Jstor)
“Jewellery” Grove Art Online (pre-16th-20th century)
Kunz, George Frederick, “The crown jewels of Russia,” Art & Life, June 1919, p.288-292 (PDF via Jstor)
Pawley, Tammy, “I want to be a jewelry designer: take the first step,” The Spruce Crafts, 10/11/17 (thesprucecrafts.com is dedicated to all manner of craft making, including extensive info on jewelry fabrication tutorials, material resources, etc.)
Phillips, Clare, Jewelry: from antiquity to the present, Thames and Hudson, NK7304 .P48 1996
Wardropper, Ian, “Jewelry in Germany,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol.25, #2, 2000 (via Jstor)
American Apparel Producers’ Network
American Textile Machinery Association
Buckley, Cheryl, “On the Margins: Theorizing the History and Significance of Making and Designing Clothes at Home,” Journal of Design History, Vol.11, #2, 1998, p.157-171
English, Beth Anne, et al, Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, University of Georgia Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)
FashionDex (Apparel manufacturers’ resources)
Garment Contractors Association of Southern California
The Garment Worker Center (Los Angeles-based center dedicated to workers’ rights and collective organizing)
Stock market activity in Textile, Apparel, Footwear & Accessories
Timmerman, Kelsey, Where am I Wearing? A global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Unite Here (In 2004 the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union)
Breward, Christopher, The suit: form, function and style, Reaktion Books, GT2079 .B74 2016
Kuchta, David, The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850, University of California Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Reigning men: fashion in menswear, 1715-2015, LACMA, TT617.L67 2016
Peiss, Kathy Lee, Zoot suit: the enigmatic career of an extreme style, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Shannon, Brent Alan, The cut of his coat: men, dress, and consumer culture in Britain, 1860-1914, Ohio University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)
Arnold, Rebecca, Fashion: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Carlson, Elizabeth, “Cubist Fashion: mainstreaming Modernism after the Armory,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2014, p.1-28 (PDF via Jstor)
Doherty, Anne Marie, Fashion marketing, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Entwistle, Joanne, The aesthetic economy of fashion: markets and value in clothing and modeling, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Gehlhar, Mary, Fashion Designer Survival Guide, Dearborn Trade, 2005 (via Ebook Central)
Mores, Claudio Marenco, From Fiorucci to the Guerrilla stores: shop displays in architecture, marketing and communications, Rizzoli, NA6220 .M665 2006
Auslander, Leora, " Deploying material culture to write the history of gender and sexuality: the example of clothing and textiles," Clio. Women, Gender, History, #40, p.157-178 (PDF via JStor)
Bartlett, Djurdia, FashionEast: the spectre that haunted socialism, MIT Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Benda, Camille, Dressing the resistance: the visual language of protest through design, Princeton Architectural Press, GT525 .B46 2022
Davis, Angela Y., “Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia,” Critical Inquiry, Autumn, 1994, p.37-39, 41-43, 45, (PDF via Jstor)
Dyhouse, Carol, Glamour, Zed, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Hancock, Joseph H., II, et al (editors), Fashion in popular culture: literature, media and contemporary studies, Intellect Books, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Haulman, Kate, Politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America, University of North Carolina Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Hoskins, Tansy E., Stitched up: the anti-capitalist book of fashion, Pluto Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Kinney, Alison, Hood, Bloomsbury Academic, GT2110 .K54 2016
Lei, Jun, “’Natural’ curves: breast-binding and changing aesthetics of the female body in China of the Early Twentieth Century,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Spring 2015, p.163-223 (PDF via Jstor)
Metzger, Sean, Chinese looks: fashion, performance, race, Indiana University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Paoletti, Jo Barraclough, Sex and unisex: fashion, feminism and the sexual revolution, Indian University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Peiss, Kathy Lee, Zoot suit: the enigmatic career of an extreme style, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Go Fug Yourself (Celebrity style and non-style wittily annotated)
Lewis, Shantrelle, Dandy lion: the black dandy and street style, Aperture, GT6720 .L49 2017
On the Street (Bill Cunningham’s photo-essays on street fashion in the New York Times)
Romero, Elena & Elizabeth Way (editors), Fresh fly fabulous : 50 years of hip hop style, Rizzoli, GV1796.H57 F75 2023
The Sartorialist (Street fashion photographed by Scott Schuman)
Song, Aimee, World of style, Abrams Image, 2018 (via Ebook Central)
White, Constance, How to slay: inspiration from the queens & kings of Black style, Rizzoli, TT504.4 .W495 2018
Yagi, Yoko, Tokyo street style, Abrams, 2018 (via Ebook Central)
Albers, Anni, On weaving, Princeton University Press, TS1475 .A42 2017
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, “Styling synthetics: DuPont’s marketing of fabrics and fashions in postwar America,” The Business History Review, Autumn 2006, Vol.80, #3, p.485-528 (PDF via Jstor)
Genevaux, Chloé, Cork in architecture, design, fashion, and art, Gingko Press, TA455.C6 G45 2019
Gries, Thomas, Textile technology: an introduction, Hanser Publications, TS1445 .G75 2015
Humphries, Mary, Fabric reference, Pearson Prentice Hall, TS1445 .H85 2009
Quinn, Bradley, Textile futures: fashion, design and technology, Berg, TS1765 .Q56 2010
Barbier, Muriel & Shazia Boucher, The story of lingerie, Parkstone International, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
“Fashion: categories of design, Underwear,” Oxford Art Online
Fields, Jill, An intimate affair: women, lingerie, and sexuality, University of California Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
Lei, Jun, “’Natural’ curves: breast-binding and changing aesthetics of the female body in China of the Early Twentieth Century,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Spring 2015, p.163-223 (PDF via Jstor)
Olson, Kelly, “Roman underwear revisited,” The Classical World, Winter 2003, p.201-210 (PDF via Jstor)
George, Cassidy, "In the '60s, America's wearable art movement reflected true counterculture," Document, January 21, 2020
World of WearableArt, Wearable art, Craig Potton Publishers & the World of WearableArt, TT507.W943 2013 (Oversize shelf)
Yi, Chun-Shan Sandie, Crip couture, 2017. (A collection of wearable art that Yi terms "Disability Fashion".)
"Africa, Art forms," Oxford Art Online
Allman, Jean, Fashioning Africa: power and the politics of dress, Indiana University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Gott, Suzanne, Contemporary African Fashion, Indiana University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Renne, Elisha P., Veiling in Africa, Indiana University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Richardson, Whitney, “Africa takes its turn on the runway,” New York Times, August 18, 2016 (via nytimes.com)
Rovine, Victoria L., African fashion, global style, Indiana University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Rovine, Victoria L., “Continuity, innovation, fashion: three genres of Malian embroidery,” African Arts, Autumn 2011, p.58-67 (PDF via Jstor)
Rovine, Victoria L., “FIMA and the future of fashion,” African Arts, Autumn 2010, p.1, 4-7 (PDF via Jstor)
Sieber, Roy, African Textiles and Decorative Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, NK8887 .S53 1972
Gradén, Lizette, “FasioNordic: folk costume as performance of genealogy and place," Journal of Folklore Research, September/December 2014, p.337-388 (On Nordic communities; PDF via Jstor)
Gray, Sally Helvenston, “Searching for Mother Hubbard: function and fashion in nineteenth-century dress,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.48, #1, 2014, p.29-74 (PDF via Jstor)
Haulman, Kate, Gender and American Culture: Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America, University of North Carolina Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Lynch, Annette & Mitchell D. Strauss (editors), Ethnic Dress in the United States: a cultural encyclopedia, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
“Native American Clothing,” American Indian Heritage Foundation
“Native North American art, Dress and personal adornment,” Oxford Art Online
Orr, Heather & Matthew G. Looper (editors), Wearing culture: dress and regalia in early Mesoamerica and Central America, University Press of Colorado, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Palmer, Alexandra (editor), Fashion: a Canadian perspective, University of Toronto Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Paoletti, Jo B., “Clothing and Gender in America: Children's Fashions, 1890-1920,” Signs, Autumn 1987, p.136-143 (PDF via Jstor)
Putnam, Tyler Rudd, “Joseph Long’s Slops: ready-made clothing in early America,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2015, p.63-91 (PDF via Jstor)
Rowe, Ann Pollard, Costume and history in highland Ecuador, University of Texas Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Berry, Jess, “A uniform approach? Designing Australian national identity at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games,” Journal of Design History, Vol.26, #1, 2013 (PDF via Jstor)
Jolly, Margaret & Hyaeweol Choi, “A saturated history of Christianity and cloth in Oceania,” from Divine domesticities: Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific, ANU Press, 2014 (PDF via Jstor)
“Pacific islands, Body arts,” Oxford Art Online
Sharrad, Paul, “’Tapa’ and text: hybrid technologies and Pacific (re)possession,” Pacific Arts, Vol.3/5, 2007, p.128-138 (PDF via Jstor)
Waite, Deborah, “From personal ornaments to canoe carvings and shields,” Pacific Arts, Vol.13, #1, 2013, p.27-39 (Forms of ornamentation in the Solomon Islands, PDF via Jstor)
Wallace, Patricia, “Traditional Maori dress: recovery of a seventeenth-century style?” Pacific Arts, Vol.1, 2006, p.54-64 (PDF via Jstor)
Ashton, Leigh, “Chinese textiles,” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, January 31, 1936, p.305-319 (PDF via Jstor)
"China, Dress," “Japan, Dress,” “Korea, Other Arts, Dress” Oxford Art Online
Denney, Joyce, “Luxury and propriety: Edo Period Noh costumes and Samurai women’s garments in the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol.88, #1/4, 2014, p.114-127 (via Ebook Central)
Johnson-Woods, Toni & Vicki Kataminas, Shanghai Street Style, Intellect Books Ltd, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Kim, Hyung-eun, “A precious secret,” Archaeology, Vol.68, #4, 2015, p.46-49 (PDF via Jstor)
Ladner, Mimsie, “Hanbok: an introduction to South Korea’s National Dress,” Culture Trip, January 2017 (via theculturetrip.com)
Lei, Jun, “’Natural’ curves: breast-binding and changing aesthetics of the female body in China of the Early Tentieth Century,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Spring 2015, p.163-223 (PDF via Jstor)
Nakagawa, Keiichiro & Henry Rosovsky, “The case of the dying kimono: the influence of changing fashions on the development of the Japanese woolen industry,” The Business History Review, Spring/Summer 1963, p.59-80 (PDF via Jstor)
Nitanai, Keiko, Kimono design: an introduction to textiles and patterns, Tuttle Publishing, 2017 (via Ebook Central)
Willis, Clive, “Captain Jorge Álvares and Father Luis Fróis S.J.: two early Portuguese Descriptions of Japan and the Japanese,” Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, April 2012, p.391-438 (PDF via Jstor)
Zhang, Xian, et al, “Characterization of yellow dyes in nineteenth-century Chinese textiles,” Studies in Conservation, Vol.52, #3, 2007, p.211-220 (PDF via Jstor)
Bartlett, Djurdja, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism, MIT Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Cox-Rearick, Janet, “Power-dressing at the courts of Cosimo de’ Medici and Francois I, Artibus et Historiae, Vol.30, #60, 2009, p.39-69 (PDF via Jstor)
Franse, Lili, Medieval garments reconstructed: Norse clothing patterns, Aarhus University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Hiner, Susan, Accessories to modernity: fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Jasienski, Adam, “A savage magnificence: Ottomanizing fashion and the politics of display in early modern east-central Europe,” Muqarnas, Vol.31, 2014, p.173-205 (PDF via Jstor)
Laver, James, Costume and fashion: a concise history, Thames & Hudson, GT511.L39 1995
Pollen, John Hungerford, “Ancient linen garments,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol.25, #136, 1914, p.231-237 (PDF via Jstor)
Richardson, Catherine & Gareth Shaw, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Siegfried, Susan L., “The visual culture of fashion and the classical ideal in post-revolutionary France,” The Art Bulletin, March 2015, p.77-99 (via Jstor)
Gopal, Lallanji, “Textiles in ancient India,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, February 1961, p.53-69 (PDF via Jstor)
Hulsbosch, Marianne, Pointy shoes and pith helmets: dress and identity construction in Ambon from 1850 to 1942, Brill, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
“India, Folk textiles,” Oxford Art Online
Nguyen, Martina Thucnhi, “Wearing modernity: Lemur Nguyễn Cát Tường, fashion, and the ‘origins’ of the Vietnamese national costume,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol.11, #1, 2016, p.76–128 (via JStor)
Quizon, Cherubim A., “Costume, kóstyom, and dress: formulations of Bagóbo ethnic identity in southern Mindanao,” Ethnology, Fall 2007, p.271-288 (PDF via Jstor)
Trivedi, Lisa N., Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
“Arab clothing: the ultimate guide,” IstiZada, accessed January 2019 (via istizada.com)
Bucar, Elizabeth M., Pious fashion : how Muslim women dress, Harvard University Press, BP190.5.C6 B84 2017
"Islamic art, Textiles," Oxford Art Online
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The following list offers a sampling of fashion and textile collections from around the world. Most collections are searchable by era, or by item type (jewelry, shoes, dresses, hats). Images are usually paired with descriptive text and/or provenance.
Bata Shoe Museum (Canada) features online exhibitions
Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art - browse the online collection or search by object, material, era, or country of origin
The Drexel Digital Museum Project - the Drexel University project is “focused on production, conservation and dissemination of new media for exhibition of historic fashion”
The Fan Museum (Greenwich, London) - search curated selections from the collection by century, country of origin, material and type
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum : browse collection highlights chosen by the curators
The Fashion and Lace Museum (Brussels) - site offers collection highlights from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
Henry Art Gallery’s Costumes and Textile Collection (University of Washington) - a digital resource created "for the study of construction, design, and pattern found on clothing and textiles.” The collection includes objects from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Central America, ranging in date from 1500 BCE to the present.
Kent State University Museum - search the Gallery of Costume, arranged by century
Kyoto Costume Institute (Japan) - digital archive database features mostly western women’s clothing and accessories from the 18th to 20thcenturies. (Japanese and English)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Costume and Textiles - browse costumes, textiles, and jewelry amongst LACMA’s array of collections
The McCord Museum (Montreal), Dress, Fashion and Textiles Collection is comprised of “garments and accessories made or worn in Canada over the past three centuries”
Musee de la Mode et du Textile (Paris) - find clothing, accessories, textiles, and design illustrations under “Mode et textile,” or peruse the “Bijoux” (jewelry) collection
The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) - collections searchable by era or category
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Textile and Fashion Arts Collection - samples from the collection with detailed descriptions and provenance
Shoe Icons - the “first Russian virtual shoe museum” (English language descriptions)
Simone Handbag Museum (South Korea) - collection and highlights (Korean and English)
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Costume Collection: Women’s Dresses
The Textile Museum, George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) - view collection highlights and featured pieces from Asia to the Americas
Textile Museum of Canada - the collection includes “fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments, carpets, quilts and related artifacts.” Search by type, region, materials, techniques, or period.
Victoria and Albert Museum - "the world's leading museum of art and design" houses textiles, fashion, and jewelry collections from the UK
Accessories, Apparel, Armor/Armour, Athletic wear, Bespoke, Body modification, Clothes fetishes, Clothing and dress, Cosmetics, Cosmetic surgery, Costumes, Custom made, Dyeing, Fabrics, Finishing, Footwear, Garments, Hair design, Haute couture, Jewelry/Jewellery, Make up, Notions, Off the rack clothes, Outerwear, Personal care products, Ready-to-wear, Safety equipment, Sewing, Sporting goods, Tattoos, Textiles, Trims, Undergarments, Uniforms, Work wear
