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Welcome Summer students! Come get lost in the beautiful and fascinating world of fashion history. This is a guide for how to research fashion history and what books and databases FIT Library can offer you while you're taking your class. You can also find recommendations for online tools and resources to continue learning even after your class ends.
​Searching for fashion by a specific time period or decade can be tricky because the same time period can be described several different ways and information about a time period may be found in several different sections of the library. There is no one phrase that will bring back all the clothing of a specific period or decade so try a few different searches to see what works. Here are some suggestions of searches to start with. For example if you're researching the 1960s:
1960s Nineteen sixties 60s 60s fashion Mod fashion Hippie fashion
Here are some other tips for researching by a decade:
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