This guide will help you access resources on the history of dress and fashion. Subscription resources are available to Vassar College students and faculty, and internet resources are available to all users. Resource types include books and scholarly journal articles about the history of fashion, primary sources including period newspapers, magazines, and books, image databases, and databases that document historic dress and costume collections.
This list represents a small number of general clothing and fashion history books in the Vassar Library collection. For a list of the books on reserve for this course, check here.
Browse these call number areas in both the Main Library and the Art Library for books related to fashion and clothing
Use Vassar's Library Search and WorldCat to find books on the history of the fashion industry or books about French authors and novels.
When you find a book in the library catalog or a database that is useful to you, look at the subject headings and use them to find more books on the topic. Some examples of subject headings in the library catalog:
