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Fashion history, culture, and politics for the girlies who read Vogue online as formative literature ✨ Always open to suggestions!

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Brain Food

Microhistories and niche non-fiction to make you go… huh?

Suggestions welcome

How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

All about textiles and fashion history

by evie.reads.too.much

for the sewists, fiber artists, and fashion nerds alike

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Fashion in history

Books about fashion in history for adults and children - compiling this list because I saw many intriguing books about fashion recently at the library :)

Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history

How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style

Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history

How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

Books by Content Creator Authors

Books by authors who also have some followings on Youtube, Instagram, TikTok etc

Iron Widow

A Year in Tōkyō: An Illustrated Guide and Memoir

The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments

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Iron Widow

A Year in Tōkyō: An Illustrated Guide and Memoir

Analog YouTube

by displacedcactus

DIY and other non-fiction books from YouTubers, because sometimes you're just sick of screens and ads.

Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion: Hilarious Introspective of History’s Worst Fashion Trends

Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes

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