Costume History Text
Survey of Historic Costume by Call Number: on reserve: GT580 .T67 2021ISBN: 9781501337406Publication Date: 2021This book is a good overview of costume history, including decades info.
"Costume history" means two things:
- the history of things people wore
- clothes especially for performers, and the history of those clothes.
Start here for Costume Resources
Here are the top general resources for Costume research
Move on to the other tabs to get more detail, find more places to search.
- WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
OUR database: image collection for forecasting, runways, storefronts. - Vogue Archive
Every page, searchable, with images, since 1892. - Fashion Studies Online
An archive of videos from Videofashion News, a few from the 1970's, up until 20-teens. Runway shows, reports, cameos, video articles, history, culture.
ArticlesPlus
ArticlesPlus searches more than 200 databases all at the same time, from the search box on the library homepage.
ALICE Catalog
ALICE lists the books, videos, magazines, journals, newspapers, & etc. in OU’s libraries.
Careful: use Articles Plus to find articles; use ALICE to find books.