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Many books can be found in the "Micro-Library" in CCM, Room 100c 

NOTE ALSO: These books can be checked out

Books about Fashion History will be located at the call number 391s (such as Fashion at the Time of Fascism)  -- 391.009 F248L 2009)

Books about Fashion Design and Designers are around the call number 746.92 (such as Fashion: The Whole Story -- 746.92 F248F 2013)

Useful Search Terms

  • Fashion Social Aspects 
  • Fashion Social Aspects 19th century
  • Fashion Social Aspects 20th century
  • Clothing and Dress Social Aspects
  • Costume Social Aspects
  • Costume History
  • Feminism Social Aspects
  • Fashion Political Aspects
  • Clothing and Dress Political Aspects
  • Uniforms Social Aspects

 

A few books that may be of interest to you

  • Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era  -- 391.009 S794c 2013
  • Clothing Through American History: The Federal Era through Antebellum, 1789-1860  -- 391.009 W321c 2010
  • The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe -- 391.00941 S897d 2023
  • Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style & the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s & 1970s  --  391.0097 H654d 2015
  • Dressing the Resistance -- 391.0086 458d 2022
  • Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing  --  391 C891f 2000
  • Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism  -- 391.2 S427f
  • Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth Century Dress Reform in the United States  -- 391.2 F529p 2001
  • A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America  --  391.009 J83p 2001
  • The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century America -- 306 .20973 H372p 2011
  • Uniforms Exposed: From Conformity to Transgression  --  391.2 C887u 2005

 

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