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2nd. ed. 3 Vol. Ed. by John Touliatos, Barry F. Perlmutter, Murray A. Straus. Thousand Oaks Park, CA: Sage, 2001. Ref HQ728 .H267 2001 v. 1-3 Over 1,000 abstracts of instruments that deal with various dimensions of interaction, intimacy, values, parenthood, family roles and power, and adjustment. Most abstracts provide a description of the instrument, sample items, variables measured, and references. Also includes information about availability of each test.

This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, and Family Relations

2nd. ed. 3 Vol. Ed. by John Touliatos, Barry F. Perlmutter, Murray A. Straus. Thousand Oaks Park, CA: Sage, 2001. Ref HQ728 .H267 2001 v. 1-3 Over 1,000 abstracts of instruments that deal with various dimensions of interaction, intimacy, values, parenthood, family roles and power, and adjustment. Most abstracts provide a description of the instrument, sample items, variables measured, and references. Also includes information about availability of each test.

Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 35,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Eds.Pat Pflieger and Helen M. Hill. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1984. Ref PR830.F3 R4 1984 Includes plot, character, and author summaries for thirty-six North American and British authors of fantasy for children.

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses.

Links to gauge counts, yarn weights, mitten, sock and blanket size charts and preemie, children, men, misses and women’s measurements.

This webportal provides many links to help guide you through NYC. Review the menu on the left side of the page to find walking tours and read restaurant, museum and shopping reviews as well as finding links to discount Broadway tickets.

Links to size charts for Misses, Junior, Plus, Petite and Tall size charts.

Review the tabs on the left to connect to articles about fashion, fashion trends and previews, buyers guides and other fashion resources. The main page includes the first paragraph of, and links to, a number of changing fashion-related articles.

The American Fiber Manufactures Association/Fiber Economics Bureau’s website provides information on the U.S. manufactured (man-made) fiber industry including trade names, tariff information and a suppliers guide. The FiberWorld Classroom link leads to information about manufactured textile history, science, manufacturing, health and safety and more.

This museum seeks to document “America’s story through the art, history and science of our textiles.” Information on exhibits and collections are provided with sample images from the collection.

This website serves as a “directory designed specifically for members of the clothing & fashion accessories industry.” The website provides links to hundreds of resources including businesses and associations (U.S. and world), schools, publications and trade shows as well as information on a variety of topics including customs regulations, care labels and clothing conversion charts.

Go to the Conversion Charts link to connect to a number of tools including fabric conversion charts, button size charts, clothing conversion charts, retail math equations and currency calculators.

This glossary provides brief definitions of commercial apparel industry terms with some links to online articles, histories and related materials.

Graduate student employment opportunities in the branch libraries: architecture, music, fashion, chem/phys, map.

This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. California Apparel News’ website includes brief news and fashion articles and includes a trade show calendar.

This is the official site of the National Chamber for Italian Fashion, a nonprofit Association founded in 1958, which protects, coordinates and promotes the development of Italian fashion through an active calendar of events, programs and initiatives. Visitors will want to explore many of the site's pages including the Members List (searchable by name or design/manufacturing category), conferences (presentation slides and notes from some past conferences are available) and information about the organization's sponsored annual fashion shows (including Milano Moda Donna, Milano Moda Uomo, Pre-Collection and Showroom). Visitors may also want to download the organization's brochure, a 40 page PDF, linked at the bottom of the homepage.

This website by the American Apparel and Footwear Association provides informaton on careers in the "sewn products industry." The site provides brief job descriptions and articles offering advice from people in the industry.

Take a virtual tour of the Costume and Textiles collection or search the Museum Collection Database for images of costumes and textiles from the collection.

An ever-changing links site, City Search connects to online Yellow Pages and many brief articles. A “Today in New York” section provides reviews of popular businesses and locations.

Clothing Model caters to members of the modeling industry and provides an online directory to modeling agencies by name and location (U.S. and world) as well as other services catered to models.

Conversion charts American, British and European sizes for women’s and men’s clothing and shoes.

This large glossary in PDF format provides detailed definitions for fibers and fiber-related terms as well as extensive black and white illustrations.

The Cooper-Hewitt Museum is the “is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.” Visitors can view select items in the museum’s collection and may go to the Exhibition link to examine online components of current and past exhibitions.

This union represents costume designers and illustrators working in the film and television industry. The website includes a membership directory, a gallery with photographs and drawings of members’ work, and information about awards and events. Visitors can click on the CDG Magazine link to view PDFs of The Costume Designer, the organization's quarterly magazine.

“The Costume Museum of Canada (CMC) documents the clothing of “everyday Canadians, urban and rural, public and private, through the garments that they made, purchased and wore.” Visitors may view online exhibits and select images of costumes from the museum’s permanent collection.

The CSA is a scholarly organization that “advances the global understanding of all aspects of dress and appearance.” The society publishes the journal Dress. Visitors will find information about job openings, grants and awards. A list of members provides links to a number of historic clothing related services.

The website of this global organization provides information of textile research, agricultural research, articles from Lifestyle Monitor magazines and a fabric library directory of source companies for the cotton industry as well as information about many additional services.

The CFDA is a nonprofit trade association of fashion and accessories designers. Visitors may read about the CFDA Awards as well as scholarship and internship opportunities.

This webpage contains links to photographs of real articles of women's clothing dating from 1600 to 1919 housed in a number of museums around the world. Viewers can browse by date and then clothing type.

This glossary provides brief definitions of Indian fashion terms including clothing types and accessories.

A museum of “20th and 21st century design, architecture and fashion.” Search Design at the Design Museum for an alphabetical archive of design history. This archive includes articles with brief bibliographies for many designers. Look at the Digital Design Museum for “a series of virtual galleries” highlighting specific aspects of the collection.

This searchable directory is open to “all projects, companies and organisations promoting organic cotton.” Visitors are invited to search the database by country and business or product (for example, “baby accessories”) for a list of companies and contact information.

This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. Display and Design Ideas’ mission “is to help retailers maximize sales through effective store design and visual presentation.” This website features a selection of past articles accessible through topics including in-store marketing, architectural materials, signage and graphics and visual merchandising.

This glossary provides brief definitions of fashion terms, organized alphabetically.

This website provides tools for color matching, creating color harmonies, searching a tint, color calculating (converting color data to different color spaces) and color calibrating your monitor.

An eco-fashion website which provides an online magazine of eco-fashion articles, a glossary of terms, blogs and links to many other eco-fashion resources including an "ecofashion finder" to locate brands, designers and online stores.

Promoting itself as “conduit to report on the latest celebrity gossip as it pertains to activism and inspiring change.” Viewers can click on the Fashion tab for a blog highlighting designers, brands and celebrities with eco-fashion connections.

Exotextile News, published by Mowbray Communications Ltd promotes itself as “the monthly magazine for the sustainable and ethical textiles and apparel industry.” Although the magazine is subscription based, viewers can open a sample copy and access news headlines.

Based in the UK, the not-for-profit Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) “is a network of designers, businesses and organisations focusing upon social and environmental sustainability in the fashion industry.” The site provides definitions of ethical fashion. Viewers can go to the Fashion: Ethics tab to find the FAQ Sourcing page with links to a number of green/ethical fabric sourcing directories. The News & Events tab provides information on fashion shows, conferences and training sessions (most in Europe) focused on ethical fashion.

California’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Museum and Galleries houses “over 10,000 costumes, accessories and textiles from the 18th century to the present day, including film and theatre costume.” Select Online Exhibits to see many past and present exhibits including previous examples from the museum’s annual "The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design" exhibit.

This site provides general information about fibers including a brief fiber history page, fiber producers and trademarks, characteristics of textile fibers, a dictionary of fabric terms, fabric care tips, fiber identification through burn test instructions and consumer alert/fabric recalls. It also provides brief descriptions of 150 high performance products listed alphabetically.

This website offers to connect job seekers and providers in the apparel and retail industry. Individuals may post resumes and review posted jobs free of charge.

This is a digital collection of over 400 fashion plates dating 1806-1914. The collection is organized into seven periods from Empire to Edwardian.

This page contains a list of online fashion design and merchandising career resources.

This page contains a list of online resources with a focus on children's fashion.

This page contains a list of online clothing and costume history resources.

This page contains a list of online costume, fashion design and merchandising dictionaries and glossaries.

This page contains a list of online eco-fashion and green fashion related resources.

This page provides links to online resource pages relating to the fashion and design industry.

This page contains a list of online fashion design and merchandising resources focused on men and the menswear industry.

This page contains a list of online fashion and design related museum resources.

This website by the Fashion Syndicate Press sells fashion runway photographs to the press. Sample photographs may be viewed for free, although individual images are not downloadable. Photographs are organized by city, season and specialized subjects.

Fashion Trendsetter is a fashion forecasting, trend reporting and news e-zine with fashion information from the major trade fairs, trend reports & forecasts. Visitors may go to style notes, fashion trends, color trends, fashion events and fashion shows. The fashion show section provides links and select images from designer shows.

This PDF glossary by Celanese Acetate LLC, is over 200 pages and offers detailed definitions for fibers and fiber-related processes as well as black and white illustrations.

This is a membership site, however, a few areas of the site may be accessed without subscription. This site focuses on fashion and visual store merchandising and it includes a number of “trendspotting” articles and links.

This dictionary provides brief definitions of visual merchandising related terms organized alphabetically.

Fashion-Era is a link site devoted to analyzing “two centuries of women's costume history.” It is topically organized by time period, clothing type and subject matter.

This website provides a guide to 25 careers in the fashion industry. Each page lists a job description, salary range, outlook, list of qualifications and a proposed career path.

Fashionable History is a online portal to resources for the study and teaching of fashion history. It includes links to scholarly journals, archives, libraries and museums, academic programs and bibliographies of scholarship and primary resources related to costume history.

This online journal was created by the University of Delaware Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies faculty in order to "showcase fashion and apparel markets around the globe, share the insights of leaders in the industry and the latest academic research on critical issues, highlight opportunities for further education and provide a forum the exchange of ideas, connecting members of our community around the globe." Visitors may access both current and archived issues from this site and they may also sign up to receive notification of new issues.

This site provides a brief personal record of writer and designer Jill Danyelle’s 2006 project to document what she wore “everyday for a year with a goal of averaging fifty percent sustainability based on the environmental mantra 'reuse, reduce, recycle'.” Danyelle also found herself taking “on the role of a green fashion promoter and advocate.”

This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. This website provides international fashion show photographs. Visitors can follow the Photos link to collections, which are divided by collection type and then designer and/or country. Free access is generally provided to less recent collections. Designer contact and brief biographical information is also available.

This UK-based fashion site provides blogs, news articles and discussion threads on all aspects of fashion. Click on the Catwalk tab in order to access runway photographs and videos from London Fashion Week, Graduate Fashion Week, and Alternative Fashion Week.

This website by the publishers of GQ, makes available thousands of men’s fashion runway photographs. Photographs are organized by season (usually the upcoming season and five years of past seasons) and designer. A number of runway videos are also available. Go to 'The Trends' button at the top of the page for the editors' selection of seasonal trends. Each trend statement is supported with images from four designers' shows.

This site by the publishers of GQ magazine allows visitors to view menswear runway shows organized by designer and season. The most current runway shows are viewable as well as shows for approximately the last five years. The Trends tab presents brief photographic essays highlighting specific menswear trends. Fashion previews and commentaries are also available.

This online magazine reports daily on popular culture and media gossip and claims to be “compulsory reading for New York editors and reporters.” Visitors may access archived past issues.

The Gladys Marcus Library supports the research needs of the undergraduates, graduates and faculty of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). "The Library provides a well-selected collection of more than 300,000 volumes of print, non-print, and electronic materials to support the instructional programs in art and design, business and technology, and the liberal arts, with an emphasis on fashion and design resources."

This website provides highlights from Godey's Lady's Book from 1855 to 1858 and three complete issues of Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1855.

This website makes available the contents of the January, February, March, April and November, 1850 Godey’s Lady’s Book online which includes period fashion illustrations.

Green Cotton is a blog intended to “gather, analyze and publish insightful information on eco-fashion” with a focus on “all emerging eco-friendly fabrics, products, stores and individuals,” not just cotton. Menus allows readers to search the archives, bring up popular topics including information on specific types of fabrics, fashion and events. It also provides links to related blogs.

Greenloop is an online fashion retailer based out of Portland, Oregon. According to its mission statement, “all brands carried by Greenloop employ a variety of responsible practices, including: using eco-friendly, sustainable materials; employing energy efficient and low-impact production; investing in renewable energy and carbon offsets; and maximizing recycling and waste reduction.” The site also offers a topical blog.

Grist is a nonprofit organization that provides a website, blog and weekly podcast on green issues and sustainable living. Search the site to bring up hundreds of fashion entries from 1999 to the present.

This private environment-focused blog highlights “clean technology, glamorous green events, environmental media, business greening, and luxurious eco-friendly design. Click on the Ecofashion link for a list of archived posts on the topic of green fashion.

Hoovers is a provider of business information. While a subscription is required to access all of the site’s features, visitors may search for specific companies and find addresses, overviews, key numbers, key people, competitors and business rankings.

Impact, published by World Textile Publications promotes itself as “the monthly web magazine on environment and ethics in textile sourcing.” Although the magazine is subscription based, viewers can access the premier issue.

This is a membership site, however, many sections may be accessed without subscription. This fashion industry website offers directories to manufactures, suppliers and retailers and others in the fashion industry. Visitors will find images from fashion shows by following the On The Runway link.

Inhabitat is a weblog dedicated to “sustainable design with a modernist ideology.” The Fashion link on the right pulls up recent posting on the topic and provides links to related articles.

Select either the Fashion Glossary or the Textile Dictionary from the menu. Pull down menus allow vistors to locate brief definitions of fashion terms organized alphabetically or to consult a dictionary of textile related terms organized by fiber types and alphabetically within each fiber-type.

This brief pdf, produced by a private textile manufacture inspecting company, provides information about the type of toxic substances to be reduced or eliminated in eco-textile production and the health threat posed by these specific substances.

This is a British parenting magazine and includes a Fashion tab that links to brief articles and images of current children's fashion trends.

Homepage of the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

The KSU Museum houses a significant collection of costume and decorative arts dating from the 18th century to the present. Visitors may view costume collections and online exhibitions. This site also includes a costume dictionary and a guide to clothing care.

Visitors may search this visual dictionary of costume history geographically, by time period or by subject in order to access photographs, historic illustrations and images of objects from the KSU Museum collection.

The KCI holds a collection of clothing from the 18th through the 20th century with an emphasis on Western women’s clothing. Follow the Digital Archive to the KCI Database to view approximately 200 objects in the collection through an interactive clothing silhouette timeline. Available in Japanese and English.

This museum collects and promotes all fields of design, including fashion, with an emphasis on Italian design and designers.

Users select the desired term in a chosen language from the pull down menu and choose the “translates” button to translate the term into four languages.

This blog functions as an "internet magazine for men that have flair for style." Several regular columns provide articles and commentaries on events in the field of men's design and fashion. The Resources tab takes visitors to links of designers, magazines and webzines and retailers.

The brother site to Style.com and the “online home of Detail and GQ,” this website makes available men’s runway photographs from current and past seasons as well as current articles, forums and blog-links to topics in men’s fashion and shopping. Under Runway Shows select from the drop-down menu of designer names to view the latest collection. When viewing a designer, visitors can click on the "See all " link to access past fashion shows as well. In order to access the forums, viewers must subscribe, but subscription is free.

This website provides fashion news articles as well as a selection of many recent runway photographs (not separately printable).

The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is housed at the University of Urbana-Champaign. It consists of over 5000 pieces including costume and set designs. The collection documents 150 productions of Shakespeare and modern classics dating from 1932 to 1976, staged in England and the United States. The collection, most of it digitized, can be searched by play title, theater name, actor and director names, as well as medium.

Mudpie Design is a British children’s fashion forecasting and graphics service. Although forecast material must be purchased, visitors can view some sample pages by clicking on the Trendbooks link and then selecting one of the tabs at the top of the page: Cutiepie (babies), Minipie (children), Mudpie (tweens and juniors), Mpk Female (young adult) or Mpk Male (young adult). Under each tab the viewer may click on the About button to see sample pages. Images however, cannot be enlarged or printed separately.

This webportal provides site searching by topic and location as well as links to events, Broadway shows, arts and attractions and more. Pull down menus allow visitors to access maps, editorial and user reviews, get directions and view sample itineraries.

View current and past exhibits and images from the museums collection some of which include design and fashion components.

New York magazine features extensive on-line fashion resources including news articles, blogs, and an events calendar as well as topical videos and slideshows. Street style is highlighted in the well-known Look Book link which features photographic portraits and brief interviews with stylish New Yorkers. Click on the Shows, Designers or Models links and search alphabetically to bring up helpful profile information as well as runway photographs.

The NYPL’s Digital Gallery has digitized a number of costume-related publication from the late 19th and early 20th century including “historical surveys as well as manufacturers' booklets and sample swatch catalogs.”

This page focuses on the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) campaign “to raise awareness about the negative health and environmental effects of conventional and genetically engineered cotton and the institutionalized exploitation of clothing sweatshops.” The site provides links to recent news articles on issues of labor in textile manufacturing as well as organic and genetically engineered textiles. There are also links to background articles, a pesticide database and additional topical resources.

Organic Exchange is a “charitable organization committed to expanding organic agriculture, with a specific focus on increasing the production and use of organically grown fibers such as cotton.” While membership is required for access to some features of the site, viewers may view recent world organic cotton market report highlights and search databases for company information for organic cotton manufacturers and retailers by brand and product type. There is also a useful links page.

Pantone, Inc. is promoted as the “world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color.” Pantone products include color forecasting. Visitors may view a number of trend articles for past and upcoming seasons by following the products link to fashion and home and then to the trends link. The webpage offers members the ability to download free articles about color. Membership is free.

“Wear Organic is a project from Pesticide Action Network UK aiming to reduce the problems from pesticides used in cotton, particularly by promoting organic and fair alternatives.” The site offers a list of articles, books and video resources on organic cotton, provides downloadable PDF consumer guides on the topic and an online Organic Cotton Retailer Directory of brands, retail stores (UK) and online shops.

Portland Fashion Week has placed an emphasis on creating a 'green' show and many of the designers featured are promoted as ‘eco-designers.’ Viewers can look at runway photographs for specific designers and link to designer websites.

This forecasting agency website provides brief teaser pages designed to promote their trend materials. These teaser pages focus on specific markets in womenswear, menswear and childrenswear and may be useful for researchers.

The Centre is an initiative between Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London, and it "is dedicated to the analysis of fashion, the body and material cultures and seeks to develop creative and theoretical work in these inter-related areas." Visitors may browse sponsored events and symposium and read briefs on the research projects of the center's members.

This glossary provides brief definitions of shoe-related terms organized alphabetically.

The Virtual Shoe Museum is supported by a private company. Visitors may view images of approximately 500 shoes accessible by time period, designers, brands, countries and ethnicity. Many images feature a Show “3-D” option that allows visitors to view objects from a rotating 360 degrees. The site also provides brief biographies of shoe designers with links to examples of the designer’s work in the collection. The site includes a glossary of shoe terminology. Available in English and Russian.

This website provides information about “footwear, components and related industries.” The site offers a directory of topically and geographically organized associations and suppliers.

Registration is free but required for site access. This website is designed to provide “buyers and other fashion trade members. . .a way to discover international high-end and up-and-coming fashion designers.” Visitors may access collections by designer’s names.

Style Will Save Us “is an independent digital style magazine that loves all things super-stylish, organic, ethical, fairtrade, eco-friendly, vintage, recycled and sustainable.” Readers can sign up for a newsletter and can join to participate in the talk section.

The “online home of Vogue and W,” this website makes available thousands of runway photographs from current and past ready-to-wear and couture shows as well as current articles, forums and blog-links to topics in fashion, beauty and shopping. From the homepage, click on the Search tab in order to conduct a Runway photo search (by designer, season and trend) or a Designers, Models and Celebrities photo search (by name). In order to access the forums, viewers must subscribe, but subscription is free.

Based in Central Valley, California, “the Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP) “provides growers with information about biological farming techniques” and “educates the public about the importance of reducing chemical use in food and fiber production” through its BASIC campaign aimed at growers, its Cleaner Cotton campaign aimed at manufacturers, and its Care What You Wear campaign aimed at consumers. Visitors can access information about all of these campaigns on its website.

The Sustainable Style Foundation (SSF) “is an international, member-supported nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and innovative programs that promote sustainable living and sustainable design.” The foundation publishes SASS, its online magazine, four-times a year, which often feature articles on eco-fashion. Searching the site for the term ‘fashion’ bring up information from the site’s magazine, blog, sourcebook and other areas.

The website includes news, a directory of world trade associations and a list of textile periodicals. The site’s Knowledge Center includes pages on fiber history, textile history, textile “personalities,” fiber trademarks, types of weaves and fabric care.

This Textile Industry Affairs sponsored website gives consumers, educators and apparel industry professionals information about textile care labels.

The TMC collects and documents textiles from around the world. Visitors may view online exhibits and examples of objects from current and past exhibitions. The site’s interactive map allows visitors to click on a region to bring up a textile sample with a brief overview of the textile cultures within the region. A wallpaper option assists visitors in downloading an image of one of the museum’s textiles.

This multi-author blog “provides product reviews, eco news and green info to the next wave of smart consumers.” Viewers can search by keyword or click on the Archives tab and find past entries by month or organized by over 100 topics. Topics include Accessories, Clothing, Fabric, Fashion and Sewing.

The Bata Shoe Museum contains over 10,000 shoes documenting 4,500 years. Look for online exhibits and go to Collections for brief topical footwear histories with visual examples from the museum’s collection.

Subscription is required to access many parts of this website. This website offers some free articles on fashion history through its “Research Library” link.

This links site is broadly divided by topic and includes links to reference works and museums, costume history, historic topics and ethnic and folk costumes.

The Costume Society publishes the Costume Society Journal. The site provides information about the society’s scholarships and awards and links to UK museums and associated costume societies.

This is a topically-organized links site. Topics include costume history (arranged by time period), costume designs and designers, ethnic dress (divided geographically), museums, movie costumes, patterns, vintage clothing and costume suppliers. The costume history section is extensive and includes visual timelines.

This PDF provides one-page, easily printable croquis for an average woman, a petite woman, a plus-sized woman, a man, a 6-9 year old child and a toddler.

This blog promotes its alternative coverage of the New York fashion scene. The archives allow visitors to access all past reports as well.

The Fashion Center Business Improvement District is a nonprofit corporation which promotes New York City's apparel industry. The website includes a map of the district, a list of fashion-related events by month, as well as an economic report for the area.

Organizational membership is required for access to parts of the website. FGI is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the fashion, apparel, accessories, beauty and home industries. Its mission includes advancement of women in these industries. The website includes information about events, career counseling and other aspects of membership.

Visitors may be asked to register to access some parts of this site, however, registration is free. This site currently hosts a number of topical fashion-related forums. It also includes a Fashion Directory of links covering many topics including designers, models and modeling agencies, public relations firms, make-up, hair and fashion stylists and photography and magazines.

The Florentine is a bi-weekly publication intended to encourage English-speaking people living in Florence to "actively participate in and 'connect' with Florentine and Tuscan life and culture." While downloading the publications as PDFs and accessing the online archive requires a paid subscription, visitors will find they can access many brief online articles on topics including News, Style & Fashion, Culture & Customs, and a special section of articles on Florence for Students.

This website provides digital images of costume plates from the book, The History of Costume (Zur Geschichte der Kostume). Individual plates were printed between 1861 and 1880 and were eventually bound together in book form. These images illustrate clothing from antiquity through the late 19th century.

This blog posted by Josh Dorfman, provides information and additional content relating to his radio show, The Lazy Environmentalist in which he discusses “cutting-edge, eco-friendly products and services and features interviews with the designers, entrepreneurs and visionaries who are demonstrating how many of today's best choices are green choices.” Viewers can search the site’s directory of eco-fashion retailers or view the blog’s topically organized archive which includes an eco-fashion topic.

These teaching units by The Lemelson Center provide information for students on the early industrialization of textiles, early dying technologies and the development of the synthetic fiber Nylon. While the teaching units are geared toward younger students, researchers may find the background information and primary documents available through links to Teacher Essays and Student Activity Packets to be very helpful. Each unit also includes a glossary and a bibliography.

This succinct but well-written essay on modern Italian fashion is part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History series. The essay is illustrated with examples of clothing pieces from the museum's collection. By clicking on the thumbnail of a piece, visitors may bring up a detailed museum record as well as additional information and related links.

Examine Collection Highlights to view 50 items from the Institute’s permanent collection. Follow the Features and Exhibition link to find descriptions and sample images from past exhibitions, and look at special topics relating to costumes for a series of essays on more than 20 topics including designers and specific aspects of costume history.

The Museum at FIT supports the educational programs of the Fashion Institute of Technology and “celebrates fashion and textiles as. . .expressions of creativity, knowledge, and identity.” Follow the Fashion and Textile History Gallery link or the Special Exhibitions link to find information about current exhibits, some of which are available as online exhibits. The Museum Collections and New Acquisitions links give viewers general information about the museum’s collections and show sample objects. Explore the Gallery link to look at a FIT student web gallery of projects, and images from past student fashion shows.

The Museum of Costume, Bath collection focuses on fashionable dress in Britain from the late 16th century to the present. This site features a brief timeline of costume using photographs and descriptions of costumes in the collection.

Ten designers were invited by The Nature Conservancy to create objects using sustainable materials from around the world. The objects they created, including items of fashion, are featured in this online exhibit with the intention to inspire designers and consumers to "reshape our material economy and help advance a global conservation ethic by choosing sustainable materials."

The Textile Museum collects and documents textiles from around the world. Currently its online exhibit, Common Threads, uses interactive components to examine some of the social, cultural and technological aspects of world textiles. Individual collection pieces are highlighted in the Textile of the Month archives.

This 4-page PDF file provides definitions of common terms used to describe hand-made textiles.

Treehugger promotes itself as the “leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.” The Treehugger site includes blogs, a daily newsletter, video segments and a radio program. It has over 40 contributing writers and covers green news in ten countries. Readers can find information about green fashion by clicking on the Fashion & Beauty tab. An How to Green Your Wardrobe article provides a starting point for many aspects of eco-fashion.

Trends West is an L.A. trend-spotting company, which promotes itself to the fashion industry. Visitors can follow the ‘retail notebook’ link to view a few sample pages of recent past issues of the company’s monthly Report. By following the ‘other services’ link, visitors can also to view sample pages from publications in different categories such as girlswear, denim, accessories and swimwear.

The U.S. Office of Textiles and Apparel provides information and data relating to international trade including trade show dates, import quotas and information on trade agreements.

This government website provides job descriptions, average earnings and information about training, working conditions and potential growth for thousands of U.S. occupations. Visitors may search alphabetically or type in one of the following occupations: Apparel Manufacturing; Clothing, Accessory, and General Merchandise Stores; Demonstrators, Product Promoters and Models; Designer; Purchasing Managers, Buyers and Purchasing Agents; Textile, Apparel and Furniture Occupations.

2009 has been declared the International Year of Natural Fibres by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which aims to expand the use of and promote more innovative uses of natural fibres. Visitors to this site can click on the link "15 Natural Fibres" to peruse a brief history and learn about the different natural fibers that come from plants and animals. The "Fibre Stories" link has four stories about new innovations for different natural fibers.

The V&A Museum has a collection of over 63,000 clothing and textiles objects. Links include Past Exhibits, Videos and Object Stories. The Day of Record archive is a sociological record of several current fashions including tattoos, hair and nails and the Goth style. Changing features highlight different exhibits and aspects of the collection.

This is a membership site, however, a few areas of the site may be accessed without subscription. Fashion Design and Merchandising students and faculty should have access to this site through designated computers.

This glossary provides brief definitions of fashion business terms, textile terms, garment types, shapes, lines and details commonly used in WWD articles.

Terming itself the “fashion style guide to all thinks elegant,” this links website is dedicated to many aspects of international fashion. A visual menu provides access to over 8,000 links on topics including fashion careers, fashion designers, fashion fairs and exhibitions, the industry of fashion and trends.

A brief history of the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

This page provides links to online resource pages related to fashion design and merchandising.

List of resources that are commonly used to locate information related to fashion design and merchandising

descriptionof duties and responsibilities for UG students working in the Fashion Library.

Hours for June F. Mohler Fashion Library

This page contains a list of online fashion design and merchandising career resources.

This page contains a list of online resources with a focus on children's fashion.

This page contains a list of online clothing and costume history resources.

This page contains a list of online costume, fashion design and merchandising dictionaries and glossaries.

This page contains a list of online eco-fashion and green fashion related resources.

This page provides links to online resource pages relating to the fashion and design industry.

This page contains a list of online fiber and textile resources.

This page contains a list of online resources for Kent State Fashion School students planning to spend a semester in Florence Fashion Program.

This page contains a list of online fashion design and merchandising resources focused on men and the menswear industry.

This page contains a list of online fashion and design related museum resources.

This page contains a list of online resources for Kent State Fashion School students planning to spend a semester in New York City.

This page contains a list of useful fashion tools and sizing/measurement charts.

Provides maps and directions locating the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

Describes the holdings of the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

Answers to frequently asked questions about the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

the staff of the Fashion Library

Homepage of the June F. Mohler Fashion Library

Brief description and overview of all branch libraries, reference collection, gov docs, and spec coll.