Vintage Resources
Vintage-inspired shopping
Favorite wearable art and refashion links
Shop a Girl Thing
Love this wearable pixie dress for girls.
Recycle a vintage slip dress
Nine Muses of Crete
Broken Ghost Clothing
Pondhopper
My Bonny
Refashioners
Here’s a list of my favorite resources for researching vintage fashion:
An online fashion catalogue of photographs, illustrations at objects
A rich resource for fashion history
A partial representation of Godey’s Lady’s Book with some commentary
An exhaustive resource on vintage patterns
New York Public Library’s Digital Fashion Gallery
A searchable database of fashion through the ages
A forum and directory full of useful help for vintage buyers and sellers
An archive devoted to popular fashion from the 1920s through the 1960s, edited by a knowledgable devotee of vintage fashions.
The ultimate resource for vintage fashion aficionados with a database that allows you to research labels
A blog devoted to women’s page editors, including fashion and food editors, beginning during World War II (when many women were hired by the newsrooms until the war ended) through the early 1970s when the women’s pages were transformed into lifestyle sections.
My working bibliography of fashion in fiction
The Dressmaker, by Kate Alcott
The Luxe series of books, by Anna Godbersen
*The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*I Like Old Clothes, by Mary Ann Hoberman
A Vintage Affair, by Isabel Wolff
The Shoemaker’s Wife, by Adriana Trigiani
* Designates a children’s book
My working bibliography of non-fiction books related to fashion
Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, Taschen
Fashion: 150 Years, Couturiers, Designers, Labels, by Charlotte Seeling
Amy Barickman’s Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion and Fun, by Amy Barickman
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, by Jennifer Cline
Grace: A Memoir, by Grace Coddington
The Little Dictionary of Fashion, by Christian Dior
Vintage Weddings: One Hundred Years of Bridal Fashion, by Marnie Fogg
The Little Guide to Vintage Shopping, by Melody Fortier
Glamour: A History, by Stephen Grundle
Antique & Vintage Fashions 1745 to 1979: A Collector’s Guide, by Barbara Johnson
Alligators, Old Mink and New Money: One Woman’s Adventures in Vintage Clothing, by Alison and Melissa Houtte
The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style, from A to Z, Edith Head
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel, by Karen Karbo
Parisian Chic: A Style Guide, by Ines de la Pressange
Decades: A Century of Fashion, by Cameron Silver
