Research Guides : Fashion Design and Merchandizing

Suggested Search Terms and Call Numbers Range

Fashion Clothing and dress

LC Call numbers: GN418-GN419, GT500-GT2370, TT500, TT507, TT645, TX340

Search also under:
textile fabrics
sewing
costume
decoration and ornament

Here are entered works on the utilitarian aspects of clothing, including works on how to dress. Works on clothing treated as an artistic object, as well as works on clothing created for the stage, screen, or special events, are entered under Costume.

Fashion merchandising

LC Class Number: HD9940

Search Also Under:
Clothing trade
Merchandising
Retail trade

JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Art Full Text
Provides indexing with abstracts of English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in foreign languages. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing 1984-current, Full text 1997-current.

Business & Company Resource Center
Provides company profiles, investment reports, and articles with company and industry news and information. Indexes 1980-current.

Business Full Text
Provides access to a multitude of sources from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. Feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Subset of Wilson OmniFile Full text Mega. Indexes 1983-current, Full text 1997-current.

Business Source Premier
Provides abstracting and indexing of journals covering topics in accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Indexing approximately 1985-current. 350 top journals back to 1922. Sources indexed include company profiles, academic journals, trade publications, books, SWOT analyses, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports, and product reviews.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides indexing with full text of multidisciplinary sources covering business with articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, financial sources for company news and financial information.

REFERENCE

Contemporary fashion
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]

Fairchild's dictionary of fashion
R 391.003 C125f2

Fairchild's dictionary of textiles
REF TS1309 .F34 1979

Essential terms of fashion: a collection of definitions
391.003 C125e

The fashion dictionary; fabric, sewing, and apparel as expressed in the language of fashion
R 391.003 P585f2

WEB SITES

FabricLink
Lots of information about fabrics and textiles, including a stain removal guide, a charted history of fibers, and brief descriptions of fiber characteristics. There are also descriptions of the fabrics made from various fibers, and the care of items made from them.
[ http://www.FabricLink.com/home.html ]

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Megasite that links to websites in all of the fashion related areas.
[ http://www.fidm.edu/features/kconnection/kconnection.html ]

Fashion net: Online Fashion Guide
A collection of links related to fashion and the fashion industry. Topics include designers, shopping, fashion magazines, and art. Also contains tips on getting a job in the fashion industry, and job listings. Searchable.
[ http://www.fashion.net/ ]

Fashion Windows
The internet’s database on Fashion designers, visual merchandising and mannequins.
[ http://fashionwindows.com ]

Fashion-Era
Over one hundred "content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume, Clothing, Textiles and Social History." Searchable, and browsable by major category, such as body adornment, royal fashion, undergarments, Victorian fashion, image and wardrobe planning, fashion design tutorials and tips, and more. From a fashion and textiles instructor.
[ http://www.fashion-era.com/ ]

FiberLink
"A site for information about all things related to the fiber arts." Provides annotated links to charts, work by fiber artists, organizations, knitting patterns, techniques, liturgical textiles, and more.
[ http://www.fibergypsy.com/ ]

National Association of Visual Merchandisers
The purpose of this visual merchandising organization is to have visual merchandisers recognized and respected as key player in the retail world.
[ http://www.visualmerch.com ]

Sewing.org: Home Sewing Association
Information for the sewing enthusiast and educator from the organization representing the home sewing industry. Includes sewing tips and techniques, fashion trends, holiday ideas, home decorating suggestions, free instructions for projects for both adults and children, sewing guidelines, and more.
[ http://www.sewing.org/ ]

Style.com
This online home for the American women's fashion magazines Vogue and W features images and information about current fashion shows, news and trends, people (such as models and celebrities) and parties, and shopping and beauty tips. The "Beauty" section includes images of "fashion icons" such as Mary Quant, Brigitte Bardot, and Frida Kahlo. Includes a link to the related men's fashion site.
[ http://www.style.com ]

Textile Links
"Articles and links covering spinning, weaving, quilting, felting, knitting, sewing, dyeing, and the whole world of textiles. Links to supply sources, organizations, museums, events, training, etc." The links are annotated and the site also has a glossary. There are quite a few dead links but the collection is large and has a lot to offer.
[ http://textilelinks.com/ ]

Textiles and Apparel: Cornell Costume Collection
Website of the Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell University, "which includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial collection of ethnographic textiles and costume." Contains a gallery of selected items and a catalog of the collection
[ http://costume.cornell.edu/ ]

Visual Merchandising Dictionary
Web-based dictionary of visual merchandising terms.
[ http://fashionwindows.com/visualdictionary/default.asp ]

Visual Store
Serves the retail design and visual merchandising industries with weekly retail reporting.
[ http://www.visualstore.com ]

Last Modified: 9/9/2005