The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published a wealth of knowledge. But did you know that the full text of many of their publications are online for free? This is such a wonderful resource for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. For the benefit of all those who love fashion and textile industry, I've made an index of titles that might be useful. Enjoy!

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications

 

Fashion History Texts Spanning Multiple Periods

Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary

The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era

Haute Couture

History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century

Infra-Apparel

Man and the Horse: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel

Our New Clothes: Acquisitions of the 1990s

Waist Not: The Migration of the Waist, 1800–1960

Bare Witness: Clothing and Nudity

Bloom!

Swords into Ploughshares

Two by Two

The Four Seasons

Dance: A Very Social History (Includes a chapter on dress for dance.)

18th Century

The Ceaseless Century: Three Hundred Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume

Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth-Century Woman

19th Century

From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837–1877

La Belle Époque

The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815

20th/21st Centuries

Christian Dior

Gianni Versace

Madame Grès

Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress

Wordrobe

American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s

Armor and Accessories

The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620

European Helmets, 1450–1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection

Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries

Metropolitan Jewelry

Near Eastern Jewelry: A Picture Book

Non-Western Cultures

Early Indonesian Textiles from Three Island Cultures

Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

Islamic Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt

Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C.–A.D. 200 

Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: A Picture Book

Andean Four-Cornered Hats

Chinese Textiles: An Introduction to the Study of their History, Sources, Technique, Symbolism, and Use

The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830

Color and Shape in American Indian Art

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End

The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs

When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles

Textiles

European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volumes I and II

Masterpieces of Tapestry from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century

Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional

The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 14, European Textiles

The St. Martin Embroideries

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

Textiles of Late Antiquity

Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unicorn Tapestries

Portraiture

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch