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Clothing and dress

Here are entered works on the utilitarian aspects of clothing, including works on how to dress. Works on clothing treated as an artistic object, as well as works on clothing created for the stage, screen, or special events, are entered under Costume.

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• Beauty, Personal
• Manners and customs

• Fashion

• Clothing and dress -- Africa
• Clothing and dress -- Asia
• Clothing and dress -- Austria
• Clothing and dress -- Baltic States
• Clothing and dress -- China
• Clothing and dress -- Dictionaries
• Clothing and dress -- Early works to 1800
• Clothing and dress -- England
• Clothing and dress -- Europe
• Clothing and dress -- Fiction
• Clothing and dress -- France
• Clothing and dress -- Great Britain
• Clothing and dress -- Health aspects
• Clothing and dress -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Hungary
• Clothing and dress -- Juvenile fiction
• Clothing and dress -- Mexico
• Clothing and dress -- Periodicals
• Clothing and dress -- Physiological aspects
• Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects
• Clothing and dress -- Russia
• Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
• Clothing and dress -- United States
• Children's clothing
• Clothing and dress in art
• Clothing and dress in literature
• Coats
• Collars
• Color in clothing
• Costume
• Dress accessories
• Fashion design
• Footwear
• Fur garments
• Gloves
• Headgear
• Hosiery
• Men's clothing
• Neckwear
• Protective clothing
• Riding habit
• Sport clothes
• Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
• Tailoring
• Underwear
• Women's clothing

• Apparel
• Clothes
• Clothing and dress, Primitive
• Dress
• Dressing (Clothing)
• Garments

• The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance (second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1955), by Grace Margaret Morton, contrib. by Carolyn Ruby, Bess Steele, and Mary E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes for You (second edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1954), by Mildred Graves Ryan and Velma Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes With Character (revised edition; Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., c1954), by Hazel Thompson Craig and Ola Day Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Color and Line in Dress (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, c1938), by Laurene Hempstead, illust. by Sara Whitney Olds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing: An Introductory College Course (Chicago and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1935), by Alpha Latzke and Beth Quinlan, ed. by Benjamin R. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing and Style: For Dressmakers, Milliners, Buyers, Designers, Students of Clothing, and Stylers (c1930), by William H. Dooley (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Art of Dressing Well: A Complete Guide to Economy, Style and Propriety of Costume (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1870), by S. Annie Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dress and Vice (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, n.d.), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
• Textiles and Costume Design (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1917), by Evelyn Peters Ellsworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Wisconsin
• Thrift Clothing (1918), by Anna Hedges Talbot (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Costume Design: Practical Suggestions for Those Interested in Art, Sewing, History and Literature (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920), by Edna Mann Shover (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes (London: E. Grant Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at Wisconsin)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)
• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Volkstrachten in den Ostseeprovinzen und in Setukesien (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1909), by Axel Olai Heikel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Language of Fashion: A Dictionary and Digest of Fabric, Sewing and Dress (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, c1939), by Mary Brooks Picken and Mary Brooks Picken School (page images at HathiTrust)

• The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body: Expressing What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, 1631), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Le Dessus du Panier (in French; 1914), by Maurice Jean Meyan and Jean Socquet, illust. by Zoë de Borelli Vranska, M. de Borelli Vranska, and G. de Colomès (page images at Hathitrust; US access only; some initial pages missing)

• A Letter to the Patentee Concerning the Medical Properties of the Fleecy Hosiery (sixth edition; London: Printed by W. Blackader, 1798), by William Buchan (page images at NIH)

• The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes (London: E. Grant Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at Wisconsin)
• The History of Costume (color plates, German text, English subtitles) (illustrated HTML at siue.edu)
• The Corset and the Crinoline: A Book of Modes and Costumes From Remote Periods to the Present Time (London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, ca. 1868), by William Barry Lord
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Tale of Tom Kitten (c1907), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Bulletin of the American Home Economics Association, by American Home Economics Association (partial serial archives)

• Woman's Dress, a Question of the Day (1894), by Lelia Ada Davis (page images at canadiana.org)

• Textiles and Clothing Along the Silk Roads (Paris: UNESCO; Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2022), ed. by Feng Zhao and Marie-Louise Nosch (PDF with commentary at UNESCO)

• The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Sarah Brazil (PDF with commentary at wmich.edu)
• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Judy Kronenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Fur Craftsmanship: Improved Fur Techniques in All Peltries Commonly Used by the Practical Furrier (New York: Fur Craftsmanship Publishers, c1948), by Samuel Raphael, ed. by Henry W. Rosley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book (fourth edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Gravesend: G. J. Baynes, 1846), by Mrs. G. J. Baynes (PDF in the UK)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Costume Design: Practical Suggestions for Those Interested in Art, Sewing, History and Literature (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920), by Edna Mann Shover (page images at Wisconsin)
• Fancy Dresses Described: or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls, by Ardern Holt, illust. by Lilian Young (page images at Wisconsin)
• Female Costumes, Historical, National, and Dramatic, in 200 Plates (London: Lacy, 1865), by Thomas Hailes Lacy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Male Costumes, Historical, National, and Dramatic, in 200 Plates (London: Lacy, 1868), by Thomas Hailes Lacy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1917), by Jane Fales (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Quaker: A Study in Costume (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1901), by Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman as Decoration: A Costume Book (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920), by Emily Burbank (page images at Wisconsin)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Oddshoefinder.com Shoe Wearer's Handbook (c2010), by Clare Barron and Kent Basson (Epub and Mobi at oddshoefinder.com)

• Advanced Fur Craftsmanship: Improved Fur Techniques in All Peltries Commonly Used by the Practical Furrier (New York: Fur Craftsmanship Publishers, c1948), by Samuel Raphael, ed. by Henry W. Rosley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gloves, Past and Present (New York: The Sherwood Press, 1917), by Willard M. Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How to Knit Stockings (ca. 1865), by Miss E. Ryder (PDF in the UK)
• A Letter to the Patentee Concerning the Medical Properties of the Fleecy Hosiery (sixth edition; London: Printed by W. Blackader, 1798), by William Buchan (page images at NIH)
• The Knitting Teacher's Assistant, Designed for the Use of National Girls' Schools (London: Hatchards, 1881), ed. by Elvina Mary Corbould (PDF in the UK)

• Garment Making: A Treatise, Embracing the Whole Subject of Practical Tailoring, Giving Special and Detailed Instructions Upon the Making of Every Modern Garment Made by Tailorsliamson. (London: J. Williamson, n.d.), ed. by John Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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