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Dresses

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• Women's clothing

• 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)

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

• Clothing for Women: Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for School and Home (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1918), by Laura I. Baldt (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Well-Dressed Woman: A Study in the Practical Application to Dress of the Laws of Health, Art, and Morals (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., 1892), by Helen Gilbert Ecob
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Woman as Decoration: A Costume Book (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920), by Emily Burbank (page images at Wisconsin)
• Color and Line in Dress (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, c1938), by Laurene Hempstead, illust. by Sara Whitney Olds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Techniques for Sewing Tricot Lingerie (University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service circular #543; ca. 1977), by W. Jeannette Roberts (PDF at uark.edu)

• Mid-Winter Book (Indianapolis: Lane Bryant, ca. 1946), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Everything for Stout Women (1944 midsummer catalog; Indianapolis: Lane Bryant, 1944), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slenderizing Fashions: The Style Book for Stout Women and Misses (spring and summer 1942 catalog; New York: Lane Bryant, 1942), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at chronically-overdressed.com)
• January-February Sale for Stout Women and Misses (mid-winter 1941 catalog; New York: Lane Bryant, c1940), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slenderizing Fashions for Stout Women and Misses: Fall and Winter 1938-1939 (New York: Lane Bryant, 1938), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• June-July-August Sale for Stout Women and Misses (New York: Lane Bryant, 1935), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Style Book of Slenderizing Fashions (spring and summer 1935 catalog; New York: Lane Bryant, 1935), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (PDF page images at Wisconsin)
• The Style Book of Slenderizing Fashions (fall and winter 1934-1935 catalog; New York: Lane Bryant, 1934), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slenderizing Fashions for Stout Women and Misses (spring and summer 1929 catalog; New York: Lane Bryant, 1929), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (page images at archive.org)
• Lane Bryant July-August Sale (New York: Lane Bryant, ca. 1922), by Lane Bryant (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2006), by Patricia Campbell Warner (PDF files at umass.edu)