Fashion & Clothing  

Welcome to the UC Davis Library guide for Fashion and Clothing.  This guide provides an introduction to finding information in Shields Library on fashion and clothing.  Pages in this guide include a list of selected reference books and materials, suggested databases for finding articles, web sites with good fashion, costume, and clothing information and more.

Please contact me (Marcia Meister) if you have questions about using the library's fashion and clothing resources.  If you are interested in the technical aspects of clothing, eg., textile chemistry., please contact Cory Craig, Chemistry specialist, Physcial Sciences and Engineering Library.

See companion guide:  Textiles and Clothing for more of the science of textiles.

See also guide:  Business and Economics for company, business and marketing information.

More suggested resources on Fashion, Costume and Textiles Subject Guide

Shields library has an excellent collection of books on fashion, clothing and costume.  The "Finding Books" tab in this guide has a long list of suggested subject headings to use in the library's catalog - Harvest UC Davis Library Catalog, or in the UC's Melvyl catalog.