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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

The General Subject:

Fashion

Fashion history

Costume

Costume history

Clothing and dress

Clothing and dress history

Textile fabrics history

 

by Country/Region and Periods:

Fashion -- England -- History.

Fashion -- Europe -- History.

Fashion -- Japan -- Themes, Motives.

 

Clothing And Dress -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500.

Clothing and dress -- Greece

 

Costume -- History -- To 500

Clothing And Dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.

Costume -- History -- Early Works To 1800.

 

On Clothing in America throughout History:

Costume united states.

Fashion united states.

Clothing And Dress -- United States.

Check out this title: American Decades: 1930 - 1939. ( Ref. E169.12 .A419 1994.); volume Four, pp189- 193: American Fashion.

More Examples of Specific Topics:

fashion and women and (france or french)

(fashion or clothing or costume) and japan*

Tips: use and in between keywords; "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions; japan* searches for japan, japanese.

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion.
Valerie Steele, editor in chief.
Ref: GT507 .E53 2005

The Worldwide History of Dress.
Patricia Rieff Anawalt.
Ref. GT511 .A63 2007

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Costume and Fashion: From 1066 to the Present.
Jack Cassin-Scott.
Ref. GT720 .C37 1994

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History
edited by Jill Condra.

Ref. GT507 .G74 2008

Costume in Detail; Women's Dress, 1730-1930. Stack: GT580 .B67 1968

A Pictorial History of Costume; a Survey of Costume of all Periods and Peoples from Antiquity to Modern Times including National Costume in Europe and Non-European Countries. Oversize:  GT513 .B76 1955

Dress and Society, 1560-1970. Stacks: GT720 .S6 1974

Costumes of Everyday Life; an Illustrated History of Working Clothes, from 900-1910. Stacks: GT720 .L5 1972

Fashion Through Fashion plates, 1771-1970. Oversize: GT513 .M6 1972

Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time. Stacks: GT595 .B613 1970
v. 1. 1790-1817.--v. 2. 1818-1842.--v. 3. 1843-1878.--v. 4. 1879- 1914.

The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes Ref. GT510 .R3313 1988

Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900. Stacks: GT610 .S42 1995

Costume in Detail; Women's Dress, 1730-1930. Stack: GT580 .B67 1968

Mirror of Fashion; a History of European Costume, 1789-1929. Stacks: GT595 .B713 1964

Fashion and Reality [1840-1914]. Stacks: GT510 .G4 1963)

Western European Costume and its Relation to the Theatre. Stacks: GT720 .B73 1963
(v. 1 Thirteenth to seventeenth century -- v. 2 Seventeenth to early nineteenth century.)

Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey, The Costume Designer's Handbook (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, c1992), 61-62.

Magazines "are particularly valuable resources for costume designers because so many are devoted to fashion, lifestyle, and the daily activities of ordinary people."

Periodicals offer a more peculiar essence of the a period rather than the general description in a costume history

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

Designers' favorite magazines: life, Vogue, Town and Country (1902-1913), Tatler (1830-1832), Punch (1841-1991), Harper's bazaar (1867-1912), National geographic.

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Newspapers

For reviews of theatre productions, first-hand, contemporary account of a historical event, etc.

Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

Alt-PressWatch (1970 -present)

Ethnic NewsWatch (1959-present)

Historical:

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

African American Newspapers - 19th Century

American Newspapers (1690 - 1922)

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1860-1922)

In print:

New York Theatre Critics' Reviews. (1944 to 1994)
Ref. PN1601 .N4
(Continued by National Theatre Critics Reviews.
Ref. PN 2000 .N3)

Tip: Use the Year End Index, either in the front or in the back page in the binder.

About the Fashion Literature

The literature of fashion history is diverse in nature, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches. The following databases cover fine arts, performing arts, social history (including gender and women's studies) as well as fashion publications of general appeal.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start.

 

4. ARTbiliographies Modern

 

5. Film & Television, Mass Media, Women's Studies, America: History and Life  and World History.)

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

7. Additionally,

ABI/INFORM (Business/Company/Indutry)

Anthropology

Africa Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Index Islamicus

Slavic and East European Studies  

Latin American Studies

Performing Arts

 

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

Fashion Resources: Clothing & Costume History
(Kent State University's fashion library)

ARTstor (images from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. )

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Los Angeles Public Library: Fashion Plates (The collection includes over 6,200 hand-colored, finely detailed fashion illustrations produced between 1780 and 1880 for British and American fashion magazines.)

Photographs
American Memory

City Gallery

Getty Images Inc. Time & Life Pictures: Defining Visions of an Enduring History

Google LIFE Photo Archive

New York Public Library Picture Collection

New York Public Library Web Gallery of Images

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

Culture and History Museums
Image Quest  (two million rights-cleared images from some 40 image collections

American Association for State and Local History

Smithsonian Museum

The American Association of Museums
This is the largest and most important museum organization in the world.

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Note: You might need to identify artists creating art during a certain time period and search for their art works when other types of visual materials are not available.

Selected Painters for Costume Design Research. (Source: Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey, The Costume Designer's Handbook (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, c1992), 61-62.

Art Museums and Art Images
ARTstor

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Books with color plates, photographs, etc. are often the official records of the objects. For example:

The Fashion Book. Oversize: TT503 .F37 1998
Ref. GT720 .C37 1994

Spanning 150 years, the whole industry is represented -- from pioneering designers to influential photographers and the people they photographed. It is an A -- Z guide to 500 clothes and accessory designers, photographers, models and those iconic individuals who instigated or symbolize a whole fashion movement.

Each entry is illustrated with a photograph or drawing which shows a quintessential aspect of their work or style. An accompanying text describes where they fit into the fashion story and includes essential biographical information about the creator. (Publisher)

A Few Titles to Get You started:

Album of American History. 4 vols. Ref. E178.5 .A48 1981

Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present: Photographers and Writers. Oversize: F215 .P56 1996.

American Costume, 1915-1970 : a Source Book for the Stage Costumer. PN2067 .O3 1982

Common Threads: a Parade of American Clothing. GT605 .H35 1992

Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. GT605 .R835 1995

The Good Old Days; a History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears, Roebuck Catalogs 1905 to the Present. E161 .C68

Use keywords such as pictorial, exhibitions, photography, plates, drawings, etc. to search for books with images in the Tufts Library Catalog:

A sample search:
fashion and (pictorial or exhibitions or photography or plates or drawings)

Advanced Keyword Search for books with images

Search Results

Search Results

Tips:

1. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;

2. photo* search photo, photographs, photography, etc.

3. limit search results to books.

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Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.