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Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, Identity in Clothing
Call Number: Clapp Library GT525 .C75 2000

CREDO Reference
An interdisciplinary research tool that allows you to search over 300 reference works simultaneously, limiting to audio or visual materials.

Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Thousands of articles by scholars in the field, with primary source documents, maps, and images.

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.

Of Another Fashion
"an alternative archive of the not-quite-hidden but too often ignored fashion histories of U.S. women of color"
Identity, Gender & Fashion
very interesting blog
The EBONY Archives
The entire archive of Ebony Magazine, 1959 to present. See also the Jet Archive.
Teenie Harris Archive
Amazing photo archive of everyday life in Pittsburgh's African American community, 1935-1975. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Dovie Horvitz Collection
Over 1,300 images and texts that reflect the lives of women from the 1850s-1950s.

Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
The entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Fantastic collection of material digitized by the Library of Congress; freely available on the Web. Photographs, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and much more.
MTV Hive
Archive of MTV videos, interviews, and more.
YouTube
Excellent source for episodes of old TV shows (I Love Lucy, etc.)

Adland.com's Commercial Archive
Advertising and Consumer Culture Digital Collection - Duke University
- includes Ad*Access (print ads, 1911-1955), adViews (TV commercials 1950s-1980s) and much more!
E-bay for vintage ads, old sewing patterns, etc.
check Flickr and other image sites for old Sears and other clothing catalogs, eg

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
scholarly articles on US & Canadian history

threadbared
"an evolving collaboration between two clotheshorse academics to discuss the politics, aesthetics, histories, theories, cultures and subcultures that go by the names 'fashion' and 'beauty'."
On This Day in Fashion
high fashion history blog with some political analysis
ANDmagazine
nice feature on zoot suits
Fashion & Politics - The Museum at FIT

she, her, hers

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HathiTrust
digital library by major research institutions & libraries, with freely searchable content as well as some "sneak-peek" (copyrighted) content.

Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
All material fully searchable because in the public domain; texts, audio, video, photographs. Amazing source.

Google Books
mostly "sneak-peek" viewing of books in copyright, but some pre-1923 material in the public domain that is fully viewable. Use peek to identify what you need to borrow.