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Drama 467: Costume Design I, Fall 2021 (Prof. Janet Chambers): Background Resources

Encyclopedic Resources for Costume & Fashion

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Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. [10 vols.]
A major international resource for fashion and dress.
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion [3 vols.]
The dictionary of fashion history
Fashion studies : research methods, sites and practices
The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design [3 vols.]
Encyclopedia of interior design
Fashion : critical and primary sources [4 vols.]
Late Medieval to today.
Literature Resource Center
Offers a wealth of critical and biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the Classical period to the present. It provides several hundred thousand full text journal articles and other critical essays, thousands of plot summaries...