Library Pathfinder
Junior Home Economics
Years 9/10
Online
database
Encyclopedia Britannica (use this link at
school)
Use the simple search
term “fashion”. Some content includes “How people andevents
influence fashion; Technology; Rise of brands”. Home access can be accessed
through this link. Encyclopedia Britannica (external entry)
The password required is the same as the password to
access the Brigidine newsletter.
Ask the Library staff if you do not know this password.
Book
Resources
Look on the shelves under the
Dewey no. 391 – clothing and fashion
741.6 – fashion drawing and 746.9 – fashion design
World
Wide Web Resources
Timeline. Modern Fashion
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/fashiontime1.html
Costumes and Clothing 20th
Century
A brief account
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7631/costume8.html
What is fashion? And Who dictates fashion?
We are
constantly being bombarded with new fashion ideas from music, videos, books,
and television.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/fashion/whatisfashion.html
What is fashion? Why does fashion
change
http://www.noubikko.com/noubikko-body/tips/advise/whatfashion.htm
Dress, fashion and social change
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/dress/dress.htm
Fashion. Wikipedia
Look for “Changes”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion
Theories of fashion. What is fashion?
Fashion History
An excellent site
touching on relevant issues such as mass production, emancipation of women etc. Also looks at fashion
history.
http://www.fashion-era.com/what_is_fashion.htm
20th century fashion
Ready-to-wear
grew more important over the course of the century, however, and brought
affordable fashion to most people.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585452_3/Fashion.html#s9
Fashion. Wikipedia
Fashion
houses and their associated fashion
designers, as well as high-status consumers (including celebrities), appear to have some role in determining the rates and
directions of fashion change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion
The impact of style and culture on
American culture
I think
fashion is important to us because it's a means of self-expression--it enables
us to say something important to the world about who we are, or who we'd like
to be.
http://www.stylephyle.com/experts/why.html
The mystery of fashion trends
We can be sure
that it takes the work of several different interdependent fashion industry professions
to convince us that espadrilles, suspenders, and terry-cloth suits are worthy
of our dollars and donning.
http://www.fashion-schools.org/fashiontrendsarticle.htm
Fashionable speaking fashion
trends
Experts discuss
emerging industry trends and how these changes impact African Americans
Who decides what’s hot and what’s not in the fashion
business
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1365/is_12_30/ai_63323469
The future of clothes
Coates emphasizes that social trends, marketing, status,
politics, religion, globalization, climate, technical and even health concerns
are drivers of fashion change
http://futurewire.blogspot.com/2006/05/future-of-clothes.html
The Cycle of Fashion
Next season, the same designers convince everyone to give
up their allegiance to such out-modish designs and embrace instead the
innovative visual trends of the latest collections.
http://fashionworlds.blogspot.com/2000_01_20_fashionworlds_archive.html
History of fashion
http://www.vintageblues.com/history1.htm
Technology and Fashion History
http://fashion-era.com/fashiontechnology.htm
Clothing Industries. This is a Canadian
site but it is useful history because it reflects what happened in most western
countries
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0001691
Industry profile and
labour market information
'These
industry sectors involve more than 3000 enterprises, employing 82, 600 people
in regular employment arrangements”.
http://online.curriculum.edu.au/the_cms/tools/new-display.asp?f=4052&seq=3897
History of the ready made clothing
industry
http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/loom_4.htm
Short history of ready made
clothing
http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/history.htm
Standarisation of women’s clothing
the growing urban middle class began to purchase the
affordable and fashionable ready-to-wear
merchandise which new technology and
industrialized production methods had created the means to manufacture.
http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/index.htm
“It”
girls nab fashionable youth
FASHION retailer David Jones has paid huge
sums to have US star Mischa Barton launch its
spring-summer fashion range, all to capture a critical youth market. DJs paid her reportedly in excess of
$100,000 to come to
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,20085573-5007192,00.html
Synthetic textile fibres have revolutionized the textile industry
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0847510.html
Fashion
This pdf file consist of a summary of a book about
Fashion but it is still informative
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~np44/FASH201/Ch3a.pdf
She used to get mad…now she’s getting even. The fashion world fell out of love with Katharine Hamnett when she started putting 'green' before greed.
These days they can't get enough of her.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,2054421,00.html
Fashion changes climate.
Environmental issues affecting fashion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/08/fashion.lifeandhealth
Don’t buy it make it!
A desire to recycle
and concerns over sweatshop labour have prompted a revival in dressmaking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/08/fashion.lifeandhealth