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Nathalie Atkinson has compiled an extensive list of future reading and viewing suggestions for you!

Lecture 1: Fashion & Celebrity

The First Book of Fashion of Matthaeus Schwarz of Augsburg

Fashion Dolls: Théatre de la Mode at the Maryhill Museum of Art video

Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style

Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Ford

Ebony: Covering Black America

The Fashion Chronicles by Amber Butchart
 

Lecture 2: Fashion & Politics

Gilded Age New York: Design, Fashion, and Society

Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
 

Lecture 3: Fashion & Liberation

The Politics of Pockets and Women’s Wear by Nathalie Atkinson

Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman

Bikes and Bloomers

Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960

The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900

 

Lecture 4: Fashion & Revolution

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age and The Brinkley Girls, both by Trina Robbins

Fashion & Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation by Alphonso McClendon

Swinging Sixties: Fashion in London and Beyond 1955-1970

 

Lecture 5: Fashion & Resistance

Liberated Threads: Black Women and the Global Politics of Soul by Tanisha C. Ford

Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of An Extreme Style

African American Art: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity

Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History

Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style

Dressing for the Culture Wars

PBS American Experience: Riveted, the History of Jeans documentary video

 

Lecture 6: Fashion & Identity

Queer Style by Adam Geczy

Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men’s Fashion

High Heels by Summer Brennan

Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the 18th Century by Peter McNeil

Let Me Be Frank” A Book about Women Who Dressed As Men by Tracy Dawson

The Arquives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives online materials & exhibitions

 

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