books about the history of fashion
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Monica L. Miller
Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
Nancy MacDonell
The Chiffon Trenches
André Leon Talley
Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
Robin Givhan
African Wax Print Textiles
Anne Grosfilley
Sex and Suits (Kodansha Globe)
Anne Hollander
The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History
The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do
Colin McDowell
The End of Fashion
Teri Agins
Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Dana Thomas
Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style
Susan Brown
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900
Joan L. Severa
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
Sarah Fee
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Caroline Weber
The History of Underclothes (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
C. Willett Cunnington
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Virginia Postrel
Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England
Sarah A. Bendall
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Sofi Thanhauser
Take Ivy
Shosuke Ishizu
Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 120)
Carole Collier Frick
The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900-1929
Caroline Evans
Costume: 1066 to the Present
John Peacock
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St. Clair
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Clare Hunter
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Richard Thompson Ford
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