General

Online Resources

Bloomsbury Fashion Central Database (formerly The Berg Fashion Library Database) available via numerous college and university libraries, https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/ 

The Fashion History Timeline, https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/

The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context, https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/

Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR), https://mavcor.yale.edu/

Books & Articles

Arthur, Linda B. Religion, Dress and the Body: Dress, Body, Culture. Oxford,: Berg, 1999. 

Barnard, Malcolm. Fashion as Communication. London and NY: Routledge, 1996.

Dallam, Marie W. and Benjamin E. Zeller, Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

Davis, Fred. Fashion, Culture, and Identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Entwistle, Joanne. The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.

Entwistle, Joanne and Elizabeth Wilson, ed., Body Dressing. Oxford: Berg, 2001.

Finkelstein, Joanne. Fashion: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Heath, Jennifer. The Veil: Women Writers on its Lore, History, and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Hollander, Anne. Seeing Through Clothes. New York: The Viking Press, 1978.

Hume, Lynne. The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Joselit, Jenna Weissman. A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2001.

Wilson, Elizabeth. “Magic Fashion,” Fashion Theory 8:4 (December 2004): 375-86