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Theatre: Theatre Performance Resources

A guide to print and online resources available through McFarlin Library for drama, theater, dance, and the performing arts in general.

McFarlin Books on Costume

  • The complete history of costume & fashion : from ancient Egypt to the present day / Bronwyn Cosgrave
  • Tudor costume and fashion / by Herbert Norris ; with a new introduction by Richard Martin
  • The illustrated encyclopaedia of costume and fashion 1550-1920 / Jack Cassin-Scott 
  • Costume & fashion / by Herbert Norris; illustrated in colour & black & white by the author 
  • History of 20th century fashion / Elizabeth Ewing 
  • Patterns for theatrical costumes : garments, trims, and accessories from ancient Egypt to 1915 / Katherine Strand Holkeboer 
  • A pictorial history of costume = Illustrierte Kostümgeschichte = Histoire illustrée du costume = Storia illustrata del costume = Historia ilustrada del vestido / edited and produced by Dorine van den Beukel 
  • Costume in detail : 1730-1930 / Nancy Bradfield 
  • The visual history of costume / Aileen Ribeiro and Valerie Cumming ; original research and text for the Visual history of costume series, Margaret Scott ... [et al.]

McFarlin Books on Fashion

  • Cooklin's garment technology for fashion designers / Steve Hayes, John McLoughlin and Dorothy Fairclough
  • Impressionism, fashion & modernity / edited by Gloria Groom ; with contributions by Heidi Brevik-Zender ... [et al.] 
  • Wartime fashion : from haute couture to homemade, 1939-1945 / Geraldine Howell
  • Victorian fashion accessories / Ariel Beaujot
  • Fashion : the definitive history of costume and style / [produced in association with the Smithsonian ;  Susan Brown] 
  • Fashion in film / edited by Adrienne Munich 
  • The fashion designer's textile directory : [a guide to fabrics' properties, characteristics, and garment-design potential] / Gail Baugh
  • 20th-century fashion illustration : the feminine ideal / Rosemary Torre  
  • Pattern-drafting for fashion : advanced / Teresa Gilewska
  • Fashion, 150 years : couturiers, designers, labels / Charlotte Seeling ; [co-author, Claudia Teibler]
  • The dictionary of fashion history / Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and P.E. Cunnington 
  • Fashion in fiction : text and clothing in literature, film, and television / edited by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas, and Catherine Cole
  • Edith Wharton and the making of fashion / Katherine Joslin