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Includes articles, encyclopedia entries, timelines, and images on world dress and fashion; a great resource for background information or scholarly articles on fashion.
A crowd-sourced source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from museums and libraries, as well as well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments and films.
Covers chronological changes in womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change, and the relationship between fashion, the arts and popular culture.
Articles describing the colorful facets of couture and textiles, investigating various types of fabrics and materials while also considering such types of garb as aprons, bikinis, and prison dress.
Great background information on the United States by decade: there is an entire section about fashion for each decade, but also lots of good general information for historical context. Look for the drop menu as shown below to choose the decade.
The History of Modern Fashion by 
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Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion by 
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
