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| | Fashion |
 | | The first part of the book is history, and the second is a detailed study of separate categories such as hair and beards, headdresses and hats, underclothes, accessories and jewelry, men's costume, liturgical vestments, shoes and stockings, overcoats, and children's dress. |
 | | Divided into six parts which discuss meaning of clothing as related to historical eras, history of making textiles and garments, history of the fashion world, the raw materials of which clothes are made, manufacturing of processed raw materials, and opportunities for employment in the industry. |
 | | Organizations post "sewing and fashion books and images to provide primary source reference material for those who recreate clothes or costumes representing a specific era or period of history." Dressmaking books are presented by decade from the 1890s to the 1950s. |
| www.ccm.edu /library/subweb_fashion.htm (1297 words) |
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