Research Guides: Fashion Design & Merchandising: Books

Searching the Library Catalog

Try searching the library catalog with keywords like 'fashion', 'fashion design', 'fashion industry' or other combinations of related terms. Search with standardized Subject Terms (samples in this section) and you may find more relevant results. Ask a Librarian if you need help.

Sample Ebooks to Read Online

Explore library Ebooks in this section.
There are more Ebooks about fashion.

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Fashion: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199547906
Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience.
Fashion and Sustainability
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it.
Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920
The first comprehensive study of women's dress reform During the latter half of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries, books, periodicals, and newspapers were rich in discussions related to women's roles, health, beauty, and dress.
Social Media Marketing All-In-One for Dummies
Explains how to blend social media with your other online and offline marketing efforts. Shows you how to leverage data to learn more about your community.
Instagram for Business for Dummies
Leverage the power of Instagram to promote your brand Shows you how to use the app to connect with your audience in a meaningful way as you showcase your products and offer a unique insider's view of your brand.

Sample Print Books for Check Out

Explore library print books in this section.

There are more print books about fashion.

Note: Use your Mt. SAC ID card to check out books at the Check Out & Reserves Desk. For more information about our check out policy click here.

African-Print Fashion Now!
Call Number: 746.66 Af833
Use the entire call number above to find this book on the shelf. If you need help, ask at the Information Desk.

Introduces readers to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: 'popular' African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking, transnational, and youth styles favored in Africa's urban centers.
Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence
Call Number: 391.00945 C9368f
Use the entire call number above to find this book on the shelf. If you need help, ask at the Information Desk.

This book explores the whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's main textile production centers used their appearances to project social, sexual, and professional identities.
The Dictionary of Fashion History
Call Number: 391.00903 C9123d
Use the entire call number above to find this book on the shelf. If you need help, ask at the Information Desk.

Featuring over 60 new and revised entries on diverse topics such as the Onesie, Brothel Creepers and the Birkin Bag, this edition is even more comprehensive and brings this costume historian's bible fully up to date.

Take a Library Research Workshop

Take Finding & Evaluating Books with a Librarian to learn strategies for doing research with books and Ebooks. This workshop is available live in-person at the Library and over Zoom, and self-paced in Canvas.

Key Topics in this Workshop

Search for books by topic, title, or author
Access Mt. SAC Library ebooks
Locate books in the library
Evaluate books to determine if they are appropriate for college-level research

Who should attend? Students who want to learn how to find books appropriate for college level research.

Prior experience needed? No prior experience is needed.

TIP: You can use your own research topic during the online catalog searching exercises in this workshop.

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