This guide offers suggestions of the most heavily used fashion history databases, sites, books and magazines as well as tips for how to search a fashion history topic. These topics are huge, so we've just provided examples to give you an idea of the many different directions your research can take you.
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Thousands of recent and historical articles, books and images. Access it online with your FIT username and password.
contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's a great place to get definitions and overviews on a topic.
contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.
has thousands of images from museum collections around the world. You can browse by Country of Origin, Museum, Medium and Time Period.
GT511 .B47 2010
GT507 .L49 2011
GT511 .H55 2011
GT510 .B6713 1987
Available either online or in print in the Periodicals Department, Library 4th floor.
See the full list at History of Dress & Fashion Theory Periodicals list.
scholarly
2014 (v1 n1); 2016 (v3 n1). 3x per year
online: October 2013 (v1 n1)-Current (Current FIT username and password required for access)
This journal discusses how clothes determine social interaction and behavior and their statement of one’s values or culture. It also covers textiles and their significance in the production and consumption of clothing.
online: 2001-2018
store catalog
Founded in 1971, the company specializes in museum quality antique costume of the 18th and 19th centuries and in European embroideries, silks, and printed textiles of the 17th - 20th centuries
scholarly
1967-Current. Semi-annual
online: 1965/66-Current (Current FIT username and password required for access)
The journal of the Costume Society of the United Kingdom. Book reviews and scholarly articles about the history of dress and costume design
