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• Clothing and dress -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress -- Russia -- History -- Exhibitions
• Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (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)

• 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)

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

• 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 Mirror of the Graces: or, the English Lady's Costume (London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1811), by A Lady of Distinction (page images at Wisconsin)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (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)

• Clothing and Style: For Dressmakers, Milliners, Buyers, Designers, Students of Clothing, and Stylers (c1930), by William H. Dooley (page images at Wisconsin)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687), by Francis Sandford and Gregory King (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

• The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644-1912 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Jean Mailey (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The History of Fashion in France: or, The Dress of Women From the Gallo-Roman Period to the Present Time (New York, Scribner and Welford, 1882), by Augustin Challamel, trans. by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union After the Second World War (Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Jukka Gronow and S. V. Zhuravlev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union After the Second World War (Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Jukka Gronow and S. V. Zhuravlev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• 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)

• Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), ed. by Laura Holden Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, Rebecca Rouse, and Bobby Schweizer (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84: Report of the Royal Commission for Victoria, at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84 (Melbourne, Australia: J. Ferres, Govt. printer, 1884), by Royal Commission for Victoria, contrib. by J. Bosisto (PDF at Stanford)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Greek Art of the Aegean Islands (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), ed. by Dietrich Von Bothmer and Joan R. Mertens (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Doreen Bolger (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

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