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Best Loved: Two Online Reference Books, Plus A Big Search
- Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, IdeasEncyclopedia-type articles, photos, web links, chronologies cover popular culture. Look here for specific items of dress (ex: poodle skirt), designers (ex: de la Renta), eras, etc.
Careful when using the search box; it defaults to searching the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library -- several thousand reference books on all topics. I find browsing easier. - Encylopedia of Clothing and FashionArticles about dress, textiles, some designers, fads, history, particular pieces of clothing (LBD, for ex.). There are 3 vols here; you have to use the drop down box to find vols 2 & 3. Here again, I find browsing easier.
- List of Costume History Books in AldenA "live" search that will give you a loose list of costume history books. This way you find the various books from all over, not just the ones in the GT's.
A Few Fav Costume History Books (in Paper)
A Cultural History of Western Fashion by Call Number: Alden 7th TT507 .E64 2022xISBN: 9781350150881Publication Date: 2022
How to Read a Suit: a guide to changing men's fashion from the 17th to the 20th century by Call Number: Alden 6th floor: GT1710 .E39 2020xISBN: 9781350071162Publication Date: 2020" With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Suit is an authoritative visual guide to the under-explored area of men's fashion across four centuries."
What Clothes Reveal by Call Number: Alden 6th GT607 .B38 2002ISBN: 0300095805Publication Date: 2002" Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies valuable information about its wearer and its era. This stunning book features eighteenth - and early-nineteenth-century garments from the premiere collection of Colonial Williamsburg. "
Blue Jeans by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781501383748Publication Date: 2023Blue jeans are nothing if not an exercise in opposites. Americans have accepted jeans as a symbol of their culture, but today jeans are a global consumer product category. . . . Blue Jeans considers the versatility of this iconic garment and investigates what makes denim a universal signifier, ready to fit any context, meaning, and body.
