Further Reading

To learn more about women’s clothing between the Pre-Victorian and Post-Edwardian periods, check out these books and websites below.

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Websites

For more about women’s mourning customs, visit the website for Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, an exhibit presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2014/death-becomes-her

Books and Articles

For an intriguing period article about “Flapperism,” check out “The Flapper Age,” a 1929 article from the Peabody Journal of Education.

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence. New York: Routledge, 2015. Google Books.

Ballin, Ada. The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice. London: Samson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885.

Beaujot, Ariel. Victorian Fashion Accessories. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. http://ezproxy.lib.apsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=611866&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Johnson, Kim K. P., Susan J. Torntore, and Joanne Bubolz Eicher. Fashion Foundations : Early Writings on Fashion and Dress. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2003. http://ezproxy.lib.apsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=108872&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Kortsch, Christine Bayles. Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women’s Fiction : Literacy, Textiles, and Activism. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009. http://ezproxy.lib.apsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=298540&site=ehost-live&scope=site.