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Clothing and Style: For Dressmakers, Milliners, Buyers, Designers, Students of Clothing, and Stylers (c1930), by William H. Dooley (page images at Wisconsin)
Die Trachten der Völker vom Beginn der Geschichte bis zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert (J. G. Bach, 1864), by Carl Rohrbach and Albert Kretschmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Clothes on and off the stage : a history of dress from the earliest times to the present day (D. Appleton, 1928), by Helena Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
Vom lendenschurz zur modetracht : aus der geschichte des kostüms (Widder-verlag, 1925), by Hans Heinrich Hermann Eduard Mützel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of dress, including notices of contemporaneous fashions on the continent; a general chronological history of the costumes of the principal countries of Europe, from the commencement of the Christian era to the accession of George the Third. (Chatto and Windus, 1876), by J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust)
Le costume historique : cinq cents planches, trois cents en couleurs, or et argent, deux cents en camaïeu : types principaux du vêtement et de la parure, rapprochés de ceux de l'intérieur de l'habitation das tous les temps et chez tous le peuples, avec de nombreux détails sur le mobilier, les armes, les objets usuels, les moyens de transport, etc. (Librairie de Firmin-Didot et cie, imprimeurs de l'institut, 56, rue Jacob, 56, 1888), by A. Racinet and Firmin-Didot (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Modes & manners of the nineteenth century as represented in the pictures and engravings by the time (J.M. Dent & Co.;, 1909), by Max von Boehn, Grace Little Rhys, Marian Edwardes, and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The history of French masculine costume. (Foreign Publications, 1927), by Paul Louis de Giafferri (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the feminine costume of the world, from the year 5318 B.C. to our century (Foreign Publications, 1926), by Paul Louis de Giafferri (page images at HathiTrust)
Annals of fashion (H. Colburn, 1847), by Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Wilton, Henry Colburn, and Westleys & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (E. G. Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costume and fashion... (J. M. Dent and sons ltd.;, 1924), by Herbert Norris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An illustrated history of those frills and furbelows of fashion which have come to be known as: accessories of dress (The Manual arts press, 1940), by Katherine Morris Lester and Bess Viola Oerke (page images at HathiTrust)
Les arts somptuaires : historie du costume et de l'ameublement et des arts et industries qui s'y rattachent (Hangard-Maugé, 1857), by Charles Louandre, Clus Ciappori, Ferdinand Seré, and Imp. Hangard-Maugé (page images at HathiTrust)
400 outstanding women of the world and costumology of their time (Minna M. Schmidt, 1933), by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Le costume historique, trois cent vingt-cinq planches ... types principaux du vêtement et de la parure, rapprochés de ceux de l'intérieur de l'habitation dans tous temps et chez tous les peuples ... Album de documents authentiques retraçant l'histoire du costume ... jusqu'au XIXe siècle ... (T. Rombaldi, 1890), by A. Racinet (page images at HathiTrust)
Zur Geschichte der Kostüme; 125 Bogen, enthaltend 500 Kostümbilder aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten nach Zeichnungen (Braun & Schneider, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic costume, a chronicle of fashion in western Europe, 1490-1790 (C. Scribner's sons, 1925), by Francis Michael Kelly and Randolph Schwabe (page images at HathiTrust)
Die französisch-niederländische männertracht einschliesslich der ritterüstung im zeitalter der spätgotik 1350 bis 1475; ein rekonstruktionsversuch auf grund der zeitgenössischen darstellungen ... (H.S. Hermann, 1910), by Paul Post (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kostümkunde (J.J. Weber, 1908), by Wolfgang Quincke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bankside costume book (Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1900), by Melicent Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Clothing and style, for dressmakers, milliners, buyers, designers, students of clothing, and stylers. (D. C. Heath and company, 1930), by William H. Dooley and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (page images at HathiTrust)
Costume in England; a history of dress to the end of the eighteenth century. (G. Bell and Sons, 1885), by F. W. Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon, and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)
Katechismus der Kostümkunde. (J.J. Weber, 1889), by Wolfgang Quincke (page images at HathiTrust)
Trachtenkunde. (E.A. Seemann, 1889), by A. von Heyden (page images at HathiTrust)
O vestuario, historia do traje desde os tempos mais remotos até á idade-média; compilação das obras de maior autoridade sobre o assunto; ornada com mais de duzentas gravuras. (Imprensa L. da Silva, 1911), by Eduardo de Noronha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der mensch und seine tracht ihrem wesen nach geschildert ... (Schall, 1905), by Fritz Rumpf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costume in England : a history of dress from the earliest period till the close of the eighteenth century : To which is appended an illustrated glossary of terms for all articles of use or ornament worn about the person (Chapman and Hall, 1846), by F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
Dress design, an account of costume for artists & dressmakers (The Macmillan Company;, 1913), by Talbot Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Textiles and costumes among the peoples of the ancient Near east (J.C. Hinrichs;, 1923), by Henry Frederick Lutz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The psychology of dress (Doubleday, Page & company, 1921), by Frank Alvah Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
Philosophy in clothing. ([Brooklyn museum press], 1940), by M. D. C. Crawford and Brooklyn Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Istorii︠a︡ odezhdy. (Izd. Vologodskogo otdelenii︠a︡ gos. izd., 1922), by V. D. Andreevskai͡a (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costume in England; a history of dress to the end of the eighteenth century. (G. Bell and Sons, 1896), by F. W. Fairholt and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)
Costume design (Bridgman publishers, 1930), by Anne R. Chuse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Western World costume, an outline history. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954), by Carolyn Gertrude Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
Modes and manners of the nineteenth century as represented in the pictures and engravings of the time (J. M. Dent & sons, limited;, 1927), by Max von Boehn, Grace Elsie Thompson, Grace Little Rhys, Marian Edwards, and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of costume (D. McKay company, 1928), by Karl Köhler, Alexander Kennedy Dallas, and Emma von Sichart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historic costume; a résumé of the characteristic types of costume from the most remote times to the present day (The Manual arts press, 1942), by Katherine Morris Lester (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dress: as it has been, is, and will be. (Isaac Walker, 1885), by Isaac Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
The evolution of fashion (The Cotton press, 1897), by Florence Mary Gardiner (page images at HathiTrust)
Fancy drills for evening and other entertainments. (London, New York, 1894), by Butterick Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Les arts somptuaires : histoire du costume et de l'ameublement et des arts industries qui s'y rattachent (Hangard-Maugé, 1857), by Charles Louandre, Hangard-Maugé, and Ciappori Clus (page images at HathiTrust)
Costumes anciens et modernes : habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo (Firmin Didot fréres fils & cie., 1859), by Cesare Vecellio (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire de l'habillement et de la parure (F. Alcan, 1904), by Louis Bourdeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A cyclopedia of costume or dictionary of dress, including notices of contemporaneous fashions on the continent; a general chronological history of the costumes of the principle countries of Europe, from the commencement of the Christian era to the accession of George the Third. (Chatto and Windus, 1876), by J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust)
Die mode der galanten zeit, eine monographie (W. Borngräber, 1912), by Ola Alsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Un chapitre inédit de l'histoire du costume; le pantalon féminin ... (Carrington, 1906), by Pierre Dufay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modes and manners of the nineteenth century : represented in the pictures and engravings of the time (J.M. Dent ;, 1909), by Max von Boehn, Grace Little Rhys, Marian Edwardes, and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De vestium coloribus praecipue apud veteres. Part. I, De nigro vestium colore. ([n.p.], 1843), by Gustav Mönch (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic costume; a résumé of the characteristic types of costume from the most remote times to the present day. (C.A. Bennett, 1956), by Katherine Morris Lester (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of dress .... (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928), by Frank Alvah Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
History of hosiery, from the piloi of ancient Greece to the nylons of modern America. (Fairchild Publications, 1955), by Milton N. Grass (page images at HathiTrust)
Clothes on and off the stage : a history of dress from the earliest times to the present day (Omnigraphics, 1989), by Helena Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Mode; Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. (F. Bruckmann, 1920), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Invectiva contra el luxo : su profanidad y excesos, por medio de propias reflexiones, que persuaden su inutilidad : descripcion histórica y circunstanciada de los trages y adornos de diversas naciones, distinguiendo los tiempos de su uso respectivo, especialmente en España de sus inventores, de los artífices que en tales fines se emplean, con la explicacion de las voces, ó dicciones antiguas de dificil inteligencia en nuestro idioma (Impr. Real, 1804), by Felipe Rojo de Flores (page images at HathiTrust)
The freaks of fashion : with illustrations of the changes in the corset and crinoline, from remote periods to the present time. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1870), by William Barry Lord and william Berry Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch der Kostümkunde (J.J. Weber, 1896), by Wolfgang Quincke (page images at HathiTrust)
Annals of costume (Booth & Foster, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
Select historical costumes (Wynkoop & Sherwood, 1868), by Henry L. Hinton (page images at HathiTrust)
Costümgeschichte der Culturvölker (W. Spemann, 1881), by Jacob von Falke (page images at HathiTrust)
The religious ceremonies and customs of the several nations of the known world. Represented in above an hundred copperplates designed by the famous Picart. Together with historical explanations, and several curious dissertations. Written origianally in French; and now published in English, with very considerable amendments and additions ... (Printed for Nicholas Prevost, and comp., 1731), by Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Librairie d'Architecture de A. Lévy, 1867), by Georges Duplessis (page images at HathiTrust)
The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes. (Singing Tree Press, 1971), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Allgemeine Trachtenkunde (P. Reclam, 1900), by Bruno Köhler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bekleidungskunst und Mode. (Delphin-Verlag, 1918), by Max von Boehn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costumbres y trajes de la edad media cristiana y del renacimiento : según los manuscritos, las pinturas y monumentos contemporáneos. (J. Verdaguer, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dame fashion (S. Low, Marston, 1913), by Julius Mendes Price (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Moden und Toiletten-Brevier : Unentbehrliches und Entbehrliches aus dem Gebiete von Tracht und Mode, Toilette und Putz, Zierrath und Schmuck (O. Spamer, 1878), by Johanna von Sydow (page images at HathiTrust)
De re vestiaria libellus (Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1539), by Lazare de Baïf and Charles Estienne (page images at HathiTrust)
Versuch über Gebräuche, Kleidung und Waffen der ältesten Völker bis auf Constantin den Grossen : nebst einigen Anmerkungen über die Schaubühne (Auf kosten des Verfassers, und in commission der Commerzienrath Seidelischen Buchhandlung, 1802), by Johann Christian von Mannlich (page images at HathiTrust)
Chats on costume (Bell and Cockburn, 1906), by G. Woolliscroft Rhead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Blätter für Kostümkunde. Historishe und volkstrachten. Neue folge, bd. 1-3 [v. 1-3], Bildlicher Theil; bd. 1 [v. 4] Beschreibender Theil. (Berlin, 1876), by A. von Heyden (page images at HathiTrust)
Zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Bestehen der "Modenwelt," 1865-1890. ([s.n.], 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kostümkunde. Geschichte der Tracht und des Geräths (Ebner & Seubert, 1881), by Hermann Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
Usi e costumi antichi e moderni di tutti popoli del mondo. (Perino, 1900), by Luigi Bellinzoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costume in England. (G. Bell and sons, 1910), by F. W. Fairholt and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (The McClure Co.;, 1908), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Select historical costumes (Wynkoop & Sherwood, 1868), by Henry L. Hinton (page images at HathiTrust)
Costume in England : a history of dress from the earliest period until the close of the eighteenth century ... (Chapman and Hall, 1860), by F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
Costume de plusiers peuples de l'antiquité (Chez les frères Walther, 1785), by André Corneille Lens and Jean-Claude Bozerian (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic costume designs; 100 drawings from the ancient Egyptians to the present day, in color and black and white. (Carter Publications, 1960), by Regine Mallath (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
You and fashion (The Alexander Press, 1945), by Charles Lederman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Philosophy of dress (B. Teller, 1925), by Bonwit Teller & Co and M. D. C. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Die mode; menschen und moden im achtzehnten jahrhundert, nach bildern und stichen der zeit ausgewählt (F. Bruckmann, a.g., 1909), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historic costuming (Pitman, 1936), by Nevil Truman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Man and his wardrobe : an historical impression of attire (Marshall Field, 1920), by Marshall Field & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Praktische Kostümkunde : in 600 Bildern und Schnitten (F. Bruckmann, 1926), by Karl Köhler and Emma von Sichart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (F. Bruckman, 1919), by Max von Boehn and F. Bruckmann KG (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sittengeschichte des Intimen: Bett, Korsett, Hemd, Hose, Bad, Abtritt. Die Geschichte und Entwicklung der Intimen Gebrauchsgegenstände. Mit zirka 200 ein- und mehrfarbigen Illustrationen und Kunstbeilagen. (Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1927), by Leo Schidrowitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Mode; Menschen und Moden ... (F. Bruckmann, 1913), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Trachten der Völker vom Beginn der Geschichte bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (J.G. Bach, 1882), by Carl Rohrbach and Albert Kretschmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Trachten, Haus-, Feld- und Kriegsgeräthschaften der Völker alter und neuer Zeit. (G. Weise, 1883), by Friedrich Hottenroth (page images at HathiTrust)
The ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the seventh to the sixteenth century, selected from rare specimens in the possession of the author, and accompanied with suitable descriptions and illustrations. (Dowding, 1815), by Charles Hamilton Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
...I costumi teatrali per gli intermezzi del 1589. I disegni di Bernardo Buontalenti e il libro di conti di Emilio de'Cavalieri. Saggio storico-artistico. Estratto dagli Atti dell'Accademia del R. Istituto Musicale di Firenze (anno 1895). Commemorazione della Riforma melodrammatica. (Tip. Galletti e Cocci, 1895), by Aby Warburg, Emilio de' Cavalieri, and Bernardo Buontalenti (page images at HathiTrust)
A revival of the past ages; costumes, accessories, architecture, social life and various activities (H. C. Perleberg, 1932), by Yvonne Françoise Jossic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Mode (F. Bruckmann, 1923), by Max von Boehn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Praktische kostümkunde in 600 Bildern und Schnitten. (F. Bruckmann, 1926), by Karl Köhler and Emma von Sichart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chats on costume (T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by G. Woolliscroft Rhead (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic costume : a résumé of the characteristic types of costume from the most remote times to the present day (C.A. Bennett, 1942), by Katherine Morris Lester (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical, by Mrs. Aria, illust. by Percy Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
The Evolution of Fashion, by Florence Mary Gardiner (Gutenberg ebook)

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