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Try not to completely rely on the Internet for your research. The Potter Library has many books on fashion and the history of fashion, which may be useful in your search.

Finding Books at the Potter Library
  • Library Catalog: use this link to find books, government documents, reserve items, music, movies and journal titles (NOTJOURNALARTICLES) in our library.
  • Search the catalog using a few keywords on your topic and enter them into the search box. TIP: Don't write out a sentence. Your results will be few or zero.
    • How do you get keywords?
      • Write out what you are looking for. For example, I need costume designs in the Edwardian Era.
      • Look at the sentence. What are your keywords? I need ideas for costume designs during the Edwardian Era.
      • "costume designs" and Edwardian are what you would use for your search.
    • If you find an appropriate title, use the Subjects, etc. tab located on the top of a catalog record (Locating Print Resources - Costume Design - Spring 2009) to get to all the items covering similar subject areas.
TIP: DON'T STOP THERE! As you research, you may need to refine your searches. Remember about broadening and narrowing your search. For example, fashion can replace costume design. Think of alternative ways of getting to the same subject areas.


Below is a sampling of resources located in the Potter Library
Edwardian hats: the art of millinery (1909)
TT655 .B5 1992Circulating book.
The pictorial encyclopedia of fashion
REF GT513 .K813Index refers to plate #, not page. Loosely organized into periods.
The chronicle of western fashion
REF GT511 .P42 1991Includes some illustrations of working class attire.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and FashionREF GT507 .E53 20053 volume set. Organized alphabetically.
Fashion
REF TT518 .B77 2003Museums and websites.
20,000 years of fashionREF GT510 .B6713 1967aA history of costume and personal adornment. Includes color and black//white images.
Period costume for stage and screenREF TT520 .H933 1990Patterns for women's dress from 1800-1909
Patterns for costume accessoriesREF TT633 .L48 2006Patterns for many costume accessories. Gives a brief description of the time period associated with each accessory.
Esquire’s encyclopedia of 20th century men’s fashionsTT617 .S36



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