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Costume Since 1945 by ISBN: 9781474240734Publication Date: 2015-10-22Since the mid-20th century fashion has undergone phenomenal change at a rapid pace in the context of unprecedented social, political and cultural upheaval. This fully updated and expanded second edition of Costume Since 1945 brings this period to life through accessible, lively text and over 100 illustrations.
How to Read a Dress by ISBN: 9781472533272Publication Date: 2017-03-09Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries.
Online Resources for Library Assignment
- Fashion History TimelineGo to the timeline in the top ribbon.
- Family Search Fashion BlogSearch fashion and decade. This resource has information and an image catalog of outfits from this time period.
- It's a Look—WARdrobe: An Evening of WWII Vintage Fashions with New Orleans Fashion WeekScroll to-Check out our photos from WARdrobe: An Evening of WWII Vintage Fashions. This will take you to the flicker album.
- Encyclopedia Britannica: After WWIIPost WWII street photography
- Vintage DancerDressing in vintage-style clothing for a themed event or personal fashion is our passion. We, Debbie and Oscar Sessions, turned a hobby into this website to make it easy to find vintage-inspired clothing for women and men online spanning 1860-1980s. Our fashion history blog helps you create the look from decades past using vintage, vintage-inspired inspired, and thrifty clothing.
Object catalog
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
A digital Library of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences,
- Lasell Fashion CollectionEstablished in 1996, the Lasell Fashion Collection (LFC) contains approximately 3,000 artifacts spanning 200 years of fashion history. This growing assortment is comprehensive in its scope – from haute couture to indigenous dress; a notable array of costume accessories; and supporting collections including textile sample books, archival materials, periodicals, and fashion illustrations and advertisements.
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Collection searchThe V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Access Services and Government Information
Department Store Clothing Catalogs
- Life Magazine Digital Archive: New York Public LibraryLife Magazine is a photographic magazine chronicling the 20th Century. Browse all issues of Life Magazine in full color and search the full text through Google Books.
- Internet ArchiveInternet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Catalogs and Wishbooks317 Vintage Christmas Wish Books and Retail Department Store Catalogs, featuring 283,819 catalog pages from Sears, Montgomery Ward and JCPenney over the years.