Clothes, Fashion, & Shopping

These resources are intened to help undergraduates learn more about clothing and fashion in Early Modern England. If you have any questions about this page or recommendations for additions, please contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Subject Terms

Search the MSEL Catalog using this Subject Terms:

Clothing and dress -- Europe -- History.
Clothing and dress -- History -- 17th century.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Costume--Great Britain.

Books

Cunnington, C. Willett. Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century. London: Faber, 1954-59.
Eisenhower Stacks P4067 .C8 1954

Cunnington, C. Willett. Handbook of English Costume in the Seventeenth Century. London: Faber, 1966.
Eisenhower Stacks P4067 .C81 1966

Cunnington, Phillis E. Occupational costume in England: from the eleventh century to 1914. London: Black, 1967.
Eisenhower Stacks GT730 .C8 1967

Hart, Avril. Historical Fashion in Detail : the 17th and 18th Centuries. London: V&A Publications, 1998. Eisenhower Stacks GT585.H37 1998 QUARTO

Richardson, Catherine, ed. Clothing Culture, 1350-1650. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2004.
Eisenhower Stacks GT575.C58 2004

Websites

Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique

Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes

Fashionable Vocabulary (from Life in Elizabethan England: Compendium of Common Knowledge)

The Renaissance Tailor: Tailoring Vocabulary

The Royal Exchange

Shopping in London (from Life in Elizabethan England: Compendium of Common Knowledge)

Electronic Resources

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion

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