Fashion

Textiles and Clothing

Kate Heintz Watson

Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Alice Morse Earle

Two‑Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 is a scholarly survey of early American dress, compiled by…

A dictionary of men's wear

William Henry Baker

William Henry Baker’s A Dictionary of Men’s Wear is a specialized reference that grew out of a short “Clothes…

Textile Fabrics A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum

Daniel Rock

Daniel Rock’s work is a scholarly catalogue of the South Kensington Museum’s extensive holdings of woven and…

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

P. L. Jacob

The work is a scholarly survey that follows the author’s earlier “Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the…

The history of fashion in France: or, the dress of women from the Gallo-Roman period to the present time

Augustin Challamel

The work is a scholarly survey of women’s dress in France from the Gallo‑Roman era to the late nineteenth…

Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States

Claudia Brush Kidwell

Claudia B. Kidwell’s scholarly paper, “Women’s Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States,” is a…

Jewels and the woman: The romance, magic and art of feminine adornment

Marianne Ostier

Marianne Ostier’s Jewels and the Woman is a comprehensive reference work that treats jewelry as both cultural…

The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes

Wilfred Mark Webb

English Costume

Dion Clayton Calthrop

Self-instructor in the art of hair work, dressing hair, making curls, switches, braids, and hair jewelry of every description.

Mark Campbell

The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews

Margaret C. Conkling

Dress design $b: An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers

Talbot Hughes

Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4

Wolfgang Menzel

Habits and men, with remnants of record touching the makers of both

Dr. Doran

Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2)

Frances Milton Trollope

Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical

Mrs. Aria

Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate

J. L. Nevinson

The Evolution of Fashion

Florence Mary Gardiner

Woman as Decoration

Emily Burbank

Le Pantalon Féminin

Pierre Dufay

Chats on Costume

G. Woolliscroft Rhead

Needlework Economies: A Book of Mending and Making with Oddments and Scraps

Straw Hats: Their history and manufacture

Harry Inwards