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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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Queen of Fashion

By Caroline Weber ,

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Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
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Exquisite Slaves

By Tamara J. Walker ,

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Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe
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Great War Fashion

By Lucy Adlington , L.J. Adlington ,

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The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London
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The Business of Beauty

By Jessica P. Clark ,

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Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII's England
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Rich Apparel

By Maria Hayward ,

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Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters
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Fashionopolis

By Dana Thomas ,

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Chinese Clothing
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Chinese Clothing

By Hua Mei ,

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Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France
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Sexing La Mode

By Jennifer M. Jones ,

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The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s
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The Age of Undress

By Amelia Rauser ,

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The Ten: The Stories Behind the Fashion Chassis
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The Ten

By Lauren Cochrane ,

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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
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Khartoum at Night

By Marie Grace Brown ,

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What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society
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What People Wore When

By Melissa Leventon ,

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How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
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How to Read a Dress

By Lydia Edwards ,

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Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
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Fashion Victims

By Alison Matthews David ,

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Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, C. 800 1200
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Clothing the Clergy

By Maureen C. Miller ,

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

By Christine Baldacchino , Isabelle Malenfant (illustrator) ,

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Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe
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Make Thrift Mend

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Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
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Sex and Suits

By Anne Hollander ,

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Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
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Stylin'

By Shane White , Graham White ,

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The Fashion System
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The Fashion System

By Roland Barthes , Matthew Ward (translator) , Richard Howard (translator)

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Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look
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Seven Sisters Style

By Rebecca C. Tuite ,

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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
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Worn

By Sofi Thanhauser ,

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In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
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In Sheep's Clothing

By George K. Simon ,

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The Bombshell Manual of Style
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The Bombshell Manual of Style

By Laren Stover , Ruben Toledo (illustrator) ,

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Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
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Dress Code

By Veronique Hyland ,

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Worn in New York: 68 Sartorial Memoirs of the City
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Worn in New York

By Emily Spivack ,

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Stuff
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Stuff

By Daniel Miller ,

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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

By Sam Hall ,

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Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
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Dressed for Freedom

By Einav Rabinovitch-Fox ,

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Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto
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Mend!

By Kate Sekules ,

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The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
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The Dress of the People

By John Styles ,

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Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style
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Dandy Lion

By Shantrelle P. Lewis ,

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Jane Austen's Wardrobe
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Jane Austen's Wardrobe

By Hilary Davidson ,

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