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• Tailoring (Women's)

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• Sport clothes for women

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• Women's apparel
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• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and Problems of Pattern Making As Applied to Women's Apparel (2 volumes in 1; New York: Streimin Studio, c1939-1940), by Charles Kaplan and Esther Kaplan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Dress Design: A Laboratory Manual in Fitting and Free-Hand Pattern Making (first edition; Norman, OK: University Litho Publishers, c1933), by Mabel Deane Erwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paris Frocks at Home (1930), by Butterick Publishing Company (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Clothes That Count and How to Make Them (London: J. Murray, 1923), by Bradda Field (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Complete Dressmaker, With Simple Directions for Home Millinery (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1907), ed. by Clara E. Laughlin, contrib. by Mary Irene McIntyre and Anna Ben-Yûsuf (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Dress you Wear and How to Make It (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), by Mary Jane Rhoe (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected With Sewing and Dressmaking From the Simplest Stitches to the Cutting, Making, Altering, Mending and Caring for the Clothes (second edition, c1916), by Butterick Publishing Company (page images at Wisconsin)
• Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1917), by Jane Fales (page images at Wisconsin)
• Dressmaking Made Easy (New York: Edward J. Clode, c1919), by Isabel De Nyse Conover (page images at Wisconsin)
• Dressmaking Self-Taught in Twenty Complete Lessons (c1911), by Edith Marie Carens (page images at Wisconsin)
• Garment Construction in Schools (London: Macmillan, 1913), by Ada Hicks (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Science and Geometry of Dress (c1876), by Louisa L. Jackson (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)
• American Dressmaking Step by Step (1917), by Lydia Trattles Coates (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• 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)
• Decorative Stitches and Trimmings: Embroidery and Decorative Stitches; Ribbon and Fabric Trimmings; Dress Decoration and Ornament (Scranton, PA: Woman's institute of domestic arts and sciences, c1934), by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)

• Designing Apparel Through the Flat Pattern (first edition; New York: Fairchild Publications, c1960), by Ernestine Kopp, Vittorina Rolfo, and Beatrice Zelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let's Alter Your Pattern: Workbook for Teaching the Theory of Pattern Alteration (Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1959), by Yvonne E. Sonneland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Delineator (partial serial archives)
• Harper's Bazaar (partial serial archives)
• The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Pictorial Review (partial serial archives)
• McCall's (partial serial archives)
• Vogue (partial serial archives)
• The People's Home Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Weiler Ladies Tailor--Dressmaker, Designer, Cutter and Fitter Book (1915), by Sigmond Georg Weiler (page images at Wisconsin)
• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 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)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (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)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.