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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY of

Fullerton college LIBRARY RESOURCES

Instructor                                                                                                                                                 

Prof. Starkey                                                                                                                                         

Library Instruction Session: FASH 107

Recommended Core Bibliography of Textile and Clothing Resources for Academic and Public Libraries

By: Monique Delatte Starkey & Lore A. Guilmartin

The popularity of Bravo channel’s Project Runway translates into increased interest in fashion and design amongst the public and prompted a rise in students applying to apparel design and textile science programs . (1). The continued success of Project Runway, and other shows that emphasize the role of fashion in our lives – such as the recent NetFlix reboot of Queer Eye – give rise to new demands on the fashion and textile collections in academic libraries.

To encourage use of these collections, Dr. Guilmartin and I compliled a guide (follows) that outlines resources for apparel-related studies including design, costume history, textile science, merchandising, the social psychology of dress, and clothing economics. We relied on: 1) a literature review, and 2) contact with administrators, educators, and subject librarians at more than forty public and private colleges and universities to identify core resources.

Fullerton College Library Fashion Databases

EBSCOhost

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3: Over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 is the third of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. Subjects covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection - Series 4: Over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. Series 4 is the fourth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, we also find a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront can be found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in previous collections that include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5: Over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Series 5 is the fifth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.

LexisNexis Academic

The database includes journals, magazines, and newsletters – as well over international, national, and local newspapers in full text. Sample titles include Adorn, Allure, Apparel and Textiles Stories, Apparel Online, Brides  Business of Fashion, The Designer Mode Dailies*,  DesignMENA.com, DNR*, DRAPERS*, Elegant Bride*, Fairchild Publications,  Flame Retardancy News*,  Footwear News*,  Glamour,  Harper's BAZAAR,  Harper's Bazaar (UK)*,  Hollywoodlife,  Home-Textiles Today,  House Beautiful,  House Beautiful (UK)*,  The Ideal Home and Garden,  Indian Textile Journal (Ht Media),  Interior Design*,  JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone*,  just-style global news,  just-style research news,  Lucky*,  Lustre*,  Marie Claire,  Men's Vogue*,  Menswear*,  MFFashion,  Modern Bride*,  Modern Jeweler*,  Pakistan Textile Journal,  Perfect Sourcing,  Policies on Gems and Precious Stones,  Profitable Embroiderer*,  Redbook,  SASS Magazine*,  Shoes & Accessories,  Society Interiors,  Solitaire,  Sportswear International (India)*,  Teen Vogue*,  TextilWirtschaft,  Vogue,  W,  Who's Buying Apparel,  Women's Wear Daily(WWD)* WWD, WWD Beauty,  WWD Men's,  WWD Supplements*,  WWD the Magazine*.

Fashion Photography Databases

firstVIEW

http://firstview.com/

Claiming millions of fashion photographs and videos, firstVIEW offers the largest database of worldwide fashion show images. A handy resource for students, designers, and publishers, the site provides free access to pictures of clothing currently in stores and some archived collections.

Worth Global Style Network (WGSN)

http://www.wgsn.com

Begun in 1998, by Julian and Marc Worth, the WGSN covers fashion trends, news, trade shows, conferences, and other event information, including textile trade shows. Runway photos are grouped according to city, store, season, color, and product; store displays, added regularly, are searchable by city, store, color, and product.

Fullerton College Library Print Periodicals (2^nd Floor)

GQ—Gentlemen’s Quarterly

Magazine: 1/2006 +

EBSCOhost: 7/1989 +

LexisNexis full-text: 7/2008 +

Harper’s Bazaar

Magazine: 1/2006 +

EBSCOhost: 1/1989 +

EBSCOhost full-text: 6/1999 +

Sew News

Magazine: [8/1995 – 2/2008]

Threads Magazine

Magazine: [8/1986 – 3/2010]

Vogue

Magazine: [7/1930 – 12/1976] 1/2000 +

EBSCOhost: 1/1984 +

LexisNexis full-text: 6/2004 +

A resource for fashion trend information.

Wall Street Journal. New York: Dow Jones. 1959-. Daily (ISSN: 0099-9660).

Newspaper: Current + 1 year

Microfilm: 1/1990 - 12/1997

LexisNexis: 5/1973 +

An international daily journal, provides regular coverage of the business of fashion. Mergers, Supreme Court rulings, and market changes that affect, or reflect, the stock, profitability, or other measures of textile industry well-being are reported.

Web sites, Megalists, Webliographies

Costume History and Design

The Costumer’s Manifesto

http://www.costumes.org

The Costumer’s Manifesto is a topically-organized one-stop shop for links to costuming information. Links relate to costume design awards and grants, ethnic dress (arranged regionally), costume history (divided by era or decade), lace and needlework, and design/designers. There is also an e-group for costume-related discussions regarding copyright, design, historical research, and construction quandaries.

Fabric Care

Cotton Incorporated

http://cottoninc.com

This site is devoted to cotton-related information, ranging from marketing and retailing to yarn and textile engineering. The fashion forecasting provided by Cotton Inc. is particularly useful to teachers and students of fashion.

FabricLink

http://fabriclink.com

The self-described “educational resource for fabrics, apparel, home furnishings, and care” is useful for both consumer needs (contains a guide for stain removal), apparel design students (includes career/education links, a textile dictionary, and online forum), and industry experts (provides trade show press releases).

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subjects/textiles

The Encyclopedia Smithsonian provides links relating to the care and storage of antique home textiles, including tapestry, rugs, costumes, and Victorian silk quilts and throws. Beyond fabric care, the Smithsonian features links to information regarding the museum's holdings of textiles of Madagascar and the North American Southwest, as well as images from the museum's collection of quilts, counterpanes, and throws.

Fashion History and Design

Behind the Seams

http://www.behind-the-seams.com

Sponsored by SPESA, Sewn Products Equipment and Suppliers of the Americas, Behind the Seams targets an international audience. Covers global conferences and events, industry-wide news, and reports information for and about suppliers.

ECOTEXTILE

http://www.ecotextile.com

Provides international eco-news affecting, or generated within, the fashion industry. Ethical sourcing, environmentally-friendly fiber production, and ethical animal treatment are among the topics of interest to industry experts and academics. The pieces relating to the student competitions to create eco-friendly designs may be particularly appealing to fashion design students.

about.com

http://fashion.about.com/od/fashiondesigners/Fashion_Designers.htm

Or visit about.com: Women's Fashion: Fashion Designers

Clicking the link “Designers A-Z” reveals a biographical blurb for 75 designers and links to industry Web sites. Links to fashion employers, job descriptions, articles, and photo galleries are a highlight of this site.

Fashion Era

http://fashion-era.com

Over 800 linked pages of fashion and costume history arranged by subject, era, and style of fashion. Active fashion, sewing, and costume forums cover issues ranging from software trouble-shooting and film costume history to wedding planning and vintage shopping.

Fashion Net

http://www.fashion.net

Launched in 1995 by the Fashion Industry Network, this site serves both consumers and industry insiders. Detailed tips are offered for attaining industry jobs, including fashion photography, modeling, design, and styling. Another feature for job-seekers – a bulletin board of fashion job listings that link to contact e-mail addresses. A visual treat, the site is glittered with cutting-edge fashion images, and links to trendy retailers and hip fashion mags.

The Sartorialist

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

Over a decade old, this blog was envisaged as a tool to highlight the fashion choices of everyday people. The creator is a photographer with a background in fashion sales and marketing. The Sartorialist has attracted the attention of major fashion magazines and designers, offering a view of the creativity people use when developing personal style.

SHOWstudio

http://www.showstudio.com

An experiment in the art of movement, featuring Web cameras and phone video. Fashion is integral to the vision of site contributors, including hip fashion photographer, Nick Knight, musical artist, Björk, and supermodel, Naomi Campbell.

Textile Science and Design

[TC]²

http://tc2.com

A non-profit organization, [TC]² assists companies in the assessment and development of systems that move sewn products and soft goods more efficiently through the processes of creation and into consumers’ closets. [TC]² edits this cycle by evaluating and altering the movement of goods through the supply chain. Provides related site links and information about textile technology.

The Textile Institute

http://www.textileinstitute.org

The Textile Institute site contains a virtual library of links relating to technology, academia, fabric, trimmings, equipment, and supplies.

Textile Source

http://textilesource.com

The design of this site is less sophisticated than TextileWeb, however Textile Source does provide a user-friendly database of textile companies. To find the best suppliers, visitors can select the end use, product/service, yardage desired, type of fiber, preferred location of vendor, and enter keywords.

TextileWeb

http://www.textileweb.com

Primarily for textile industry professionals, TextileWeb is a comprehensive resource covering general information and jobs, while providing articles, market research reports, downloadable materials (including software), vendor data, buyer’s guides, shopping, an event calendar, and online discussion forums. Visitors can also sign up for free trade publications, including Process Cleaning Magazine (bimonthly), Modern Plastics Worldwide and Industrial Market Trends (a biweekly e-newsletter).

Digital Collections

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html

Online since 2002, this digital collection, available through the University of Washington Libraries, contains over 400 fashion plates (from Godey's Lady's Book, Le Follet, and others) dating from the early 19th century through the Edwardian era. The database of fashion plates is era and keyword-searchable.

Fullerton College Library Circulating Books and Reference Titles

Though some of the books listed below were published in the 20^th century, each is a valuable tool for apparel and textile design students who conduct research using a well-balanced academic library textiles and clothing collection. These titles offer students and instructors depth and breadth in research resources.

Blanco, José F. Clothing and Fashion. American Fashion from Head to Toe. 4 Vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc.  Print.

GT605 .C555 2016 Reference collection - 1st floor

Boucher, François, and Yvonne Deslandres. 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987. (ISBN: 978-0-8109-1693-7). Print.

GT510 .B6713 1987 Oversize collection - 2nd floor
Based primarily on artwork, Boucher’s costume history depicts the fashions of the European elite from prehistory to the mid-twentieth century. The text summarizes the evolution of costume within the Western world and offers useful background to students of costume history.

Calasibetta, Charlotte Mankey, and Phyllis G. Tortora. The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1998. Print.

TT503 .C34 1988 Reference collection - 1st floor
This dictionary defines the terminology of historical and contemporary clothing, invaluable for ensuring that terms are used consistently throughout the textile and clothing disciplines. It also includes manufacturing, merchandising, and distribution terms, and the styles and parts of accessories and apparel items. Pronunciation of foreign terms and an appendix of designers and fashion leaders are included.

Edwards, Clive. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Print.

NK1165 .B59 2016 Reference collection - 1st floor

Fletcher, Kate, and Mathilda Tham. Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, 2016. Print.

On order. Speak with a librarian to rush process the book.

Griffiths, Danielle. Fashion Stylist's Handbook, 2016. Internet resource.

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Jerde, Judith. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New York: Facts on File, 1992. (ISBN: 978-0-8160-2105-5). Print.

TS1309 .J47 1992 Reference collection - 1st floor
Defines technical terms related to fabrics, including types of fabrics, textile history, and production and construction methods. The cross-references between entries facilitate research.

Kadolph, Sara J. Textiles. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. (ISBN: 978-0-13-118769-6). Print.

TS1446 .K33 2007 General collection - 2nd floor
Textiles has become a standard textbook for textile science classes. Using language that is simple but not simplistic, Kadolph introduces readers to issues of textile production, chemistry, testing, and care. Textiles provides a necessary foundation in textile science for all textile and clothing researchers.

Kawamura, Yuniya. Sneakers. Bloomsbury, 2016. Print.

On order. Speak with a librarian to rush process the book.

Kidwell, Claudia and Margaret Christmas. Suiting Everyone: The Democratization of Clothing in America. Washington: Published for the National Museum of History and Technology by the Smithsonian Institution Press; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1974. Print.

TT497 .K44 Oversize collection - 2nd floor

Appropriate for Fullerton College students’ research, this title relays the history of development of prêt-à-porter as an American industry. Margaret Christman and Claudia Kidwell explore the rise of affordable ready-made clothing with a mainstream look.

Martin, Tracy. The Bare Essentials: A Passion for Lingerie, 2015. Print.

TT670 .M3 2015 General collection - 2nd floor

Moore, Jennifer G. Fashion Fads Through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context, 2017. Print.

GT605 .M66 2016 General collection - 2nd floor

Payne, Blanche, Geitel Winakor, and Jane Farrell-Beck. The History of Costume: From Ancient Mesopotamia through the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1965. Print.

GT510 .P35 General collection - 2nd floor
Presents the fashions of social elites from the Middle East and Western Europe from prehistory through the 1990s. The text draws on artwork, extant garments, and costume history scholarship to create a narrative that is simple enough for easy reference, but provides enough detail to be a useful beginning for costume historians. This book would also serve well as a reference for theatrical costuming.

Racinet, A. The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1988. (ISBN: 978-0-8160-1976-2). Print.

GT510 .R3313 1988 Oversize Reference collection - 1st floor
This work condenses Racinet's classic six-volume set, History of World Costume (1876-1888), and translates it into English for the first time. The text and 2,000 illustrations, most in full color, cover worldwide costumes from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century Europe--royalty, the working class, soldiers, and the poor.

Schoeffler, O. E., and William Gale. Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's Fashions. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. (ISBN: 978-0-07-055480-1). Print.

TT617 .S36 Reference collection - 1st floor
This detailed, well-written, and well-indexed work provides one of the few works of scholarship on twentieth century menswear.

Steele, Valerie. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Scribner Library of Daily Life. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. (ISBN 978-0-684-31394-8). Print and Internet resource.

GT507 .E53 2005 Reference collection - 1st floor

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A well-researched encyclopedia of textile and costume terminology, with citations for further research. Steele and 325 contributors have produced a thorough and interesting reference to costume and the fashion industry. 

Stegemeyer, Anne. Who's Who in Fashion. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1998. (ISBN: 978-1-56367-247-7). Print.

TT505.A1 S74 1988 General collection - 2nd floor
This volume profiles significant twentieth-century fashion designers, photographers, and illustrators, providing biographies of the historic movers and shakers of the fashion world. 

Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications, 2004. (ISBN: 978-1563673450). Print.

GT580 .T67 2005 Reference collection - 1st floor

Often utilized as a costume history textbook, this book provides an excellent introduction to the history of western fashion from the ancient Middle East to the early 21st century.

Wilcox, R. Turner. The Dictionary of Costume. London: B.T. Batsford, 1992. (ISBN: 978-0713462777). Print.

GT507 .W5 Reference collection - 1st floor

A dictionary of costume illustrated with plentiful, clear line drawings. Wilcox’ works are classics of costume and fashion studies. Also recommended are her The Mode In Costume (General collection - 2nd floor: GT510 .W55), The Mode in Hats and Headdress (General collection - 2nd floor: GT2110 .W5), and Five Centuries of American Costume (General collection - 2nd floor: GT605 .W5).

Yarwood, Doreen. The Encyclopedia of World Costume. New York: Bonanza Books, 1987. (ISBN: 978-0-517-61943-8). Print.

GT507 .Y37 Reference collection - 1st floor
Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, Yarwood's encyclopedia provides an introduction to the range of world costume.

Zeisler, Andi. We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, 2017. Print.

HQ1421 .Z46 2016 General collection - 2nd floor                                     

Works Cited

1. Greenberg, Julee, and Marc Karimzadeh. "'Project Runway’: Fantasy TV." WWD (August 1, 2006): 8. 

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