The Fashion Historian

Welcome to the Resource Index! I will be indexing online fashion and textile history resources here through the coming months. Enjoy!




The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Full-Text Online Publications

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