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The Journal of Dress History is the academic publication of The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) through which scholars can articulate original research in a constructive, interdisciplinary, and peer reviewed environment.
Here is a preliminary attempt at creating a working list of 19th-century British periodicals that are accessible online for free, as distinct from the much larger number of titles to be found behind the subscription paywalls of the commercial Gale and ProQuest collections.
Here you will find articles about British fashion and costume from Norman times through to the 1960s. View the outfits and fashions of the Middle Ages, the Tudors and Stuarts, Civil War and the Georgians.
Elizabethan Fashion Dress and Architecture Fashions in clothing often show fascinating similarities with the architecture of the period. The medieval period had been characterized by soaring spires and pointed Gothic arches, shapes which were mirrored in the excessively elongated and pointed sleeves, shoes, and high headdresses of court wear ...
Spanning five centuries, our Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dress in the world. Key items in the collection include rare 17th century gowns, 18th century ‘mantua’ dresses, 1930s eveningwear, 1960s daywear and post-war couture.
This guide provides an index of digitized historical magazines available via archives such as HathiTrust and Google Books as well as historical magazines found in print and microfilm format within the UNI Rod Library
"[S]imple dresses with their slightly rising waistlines are reflected in the most famous of all English fashion magazines, Heideloff's Gallery of Fashion which appeared from 1794 to 1802.
