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• Clothing and dress -- History -- 20th century
• Clothing and dress -- History -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress in literature -- History
• Fashion design -- History
• Underwear -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Africa -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Asia -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Austria -- History
• Clothing and dress -- England -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Europe -- History
• Clothing and dress -- France -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Hungary -- History
• Clothing and dress -- Russia -- History
• Clothing and dress -- United States -- History

• 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

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2006), by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, contrib. by Mimi Hellman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• La Belle Époque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Philippe Jullian, ed. by Diana Vreeland (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• La Belle Époque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Philippe Jullian, ed. by Diana Vreeland (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Dance: A Very Social History (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rizzoli, c1986), by Carol Wallace, Don McDonagh, Jean L. Druesedow, Laurence Libin, and Constance Old (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Christian Dior (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Madame Grès (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Marcia Lippman (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Infra-Apparel (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), by Richard Martin (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977), by T. S. Aleshina, I. I. Vishnevskaia, L. V. Efimova, Tamara Timofeevna Korshunova, V. A. Malm, E. Moiseenko, M. M. Postnikova-Loseva, and E. P. Chernukha (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Richard Martin, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Andrea Denny-Brown (PDF at Ohio State)

• Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), contrib. by Stella Blum (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)
• The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), ed. by Polly Cone (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1796-1799), by Joseph Strutt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (new and improved edition, 2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Joseph Strutt, ed. by J. R. Planché
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2006), by Brent Alan Shannon (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), contrib. by Stella Blum (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)
• The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), ed. by Polly Cone (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s-1970s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998), by Richard Martin, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)
• 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)

• 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 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.