A resource for costume and fashion historians, textile preservationists, period re-enactors, and history and theater scholars, as well as theater professionals.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion - Ref GT 507 .E53 2005 (3 vols.)
An interdisciplinary compendium of information about fashion, with articles on topics as specific as "zoot suit" to as wide-ranging as "globalization." Also includes articles on such topics as footbinding, sweatshops, and body piercing.
Critical essays on fashion cover four time periods: Late Medieval to Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century to today.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History 1900 to the Present - Ref GT 615 .G74 2008 (v. 1-2)
This encyclopedia is arranged chronologically, and covers the social significance of dress as well as fashion and the fashion industry. Includes index, bibliography, and glossary.
