This trio of books by Pam Inder reveal the hidden worlds of the British workers behind the garments:
🧵 Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid
🎀 Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods - new in hardback
🪡 Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen - now in paperback!
📚 bit.ly/3NkwO8D
Out now!✨
Gabby Brown & Leila Kelleher guide you through:
🌟 Drafting a complete set of plus-size blocks
🌟 Industry plus-size fit forms
🌟 Adapting existing designs for plus sizes
🌟 Practical skills for measuring, fitting, & working with larger bodies
bit.ly/4aBZmDs
The big day is finally here💕
Unravel the evolution of wedding fashion from the Renaissance up to the modern day with this illustrated guide to historical styles by Lydia Edwards💖
Out now - UK, US, Europe & beyond
2 April - Australia & New Zealand
bit.ly/4kHYPU1%E2%9...
Out tomorrow: follow bridalwear through history with this beautiful visual companion.
💙📚 https://bit.ly/4aNDS6w
#FashionSky #FashionHistory @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
Out now!✨
From illustrations to editorial spreads, amateur snapshots to Hollywood film, Rebecca Arnold focuses on the rapid changes of the interwar period to consider how American fashion was represented and created by visual culture.
📖 bit.ly/4avJxwW
👜 In celebration of #NYFW, add some style to your shelf with Bloomsbury Academic’s fashion books!
👠 https://bit.ly/4q9oiXn
#FashionSky @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @summerbrennan.bsky.social
The cover of 'The New Latin American Fashion Reader'.
A new chapter following the landmark 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader...
The New Latin American Fashion Reader dives into today’s conversations on decolonisation, sustainability and creative agency across the region.
🔗 bit.ly/3Z6Pefw
Book cover of 19th-Century Patterns for the Modern Body.
Pages from 19th-Century Patterns for the Modern Body.
Pages from 19th-Century Patterns for the Modern Body.
Create historically accurate designs that fit modern bodies perfectly ✨
Inside, you’ll find:
📸 Photos of historical garments
📐 Clear bodice, skirt & sleeve block diagrams
🧵 Detailed garment analysis
✂️ Step‑by‑step instructions
🔗 bit.ly/49O2MRJ
Promotional image for new book releases on luxury fashion.
Cover of the book titled 'Luxury Brand Management and Heritage Revival' by Pierre-Yves Donzé and Harry Guhl.
Book cover of 'Luxury and the Senses' edited by Yasmin K. Sekhon and Jo Norman.
New research on luxury fashion out now:
⌚ In Luxury Brand Management and Heritage Revival by Pierre-Yves Donzé and Harry Guhl
👜 Luxury and the Senses edited by Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon and Jo Norman
Recommend to your library 📚
Explore fashion books: https://bit.ly/4pCeDbz
Step into the vibrant world of Bill Gibb – one of the most innovative designers of 20th‑century British fashion ✨
Edited by Josephine Steed and @shanestrachan.bsky.social, 'Refashioning Bill Gibb for the 21st Century' explores his artistic vision.
Out now: bit.ly/3L8QETn
New research on Irish textiles out now:
📕The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland edited by Catherine Harper
📕 Irish Lacemaking by Molly-Claire Gillett
Recommend to your library 📚
Available now in print AND open access!✨
If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up?
@amytwiggerh.bsky.social presents diverse, crowdsourced visions of unconventional fictional fashion systems in answer to this question.
Find out more: bit.ly/4rU90I4
Plus-size fashion: a reading list✨
📘 Fashion Before Plus-Size
📙 Fat Fashion
📗 Plus-Size Patternmaking for Womenswear
📰 Exclusive article: ‘Plus-Sized Patternmaking as Historic Dress Scholarship’ - temporarily FREE to read: bloomsburyfashioncentral.com
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@fashionista.com highlighted Dr. Valerie Steele’s “Dress, Dreams, and Desire” and Judith Beyer’s “Antigender Fashion” as the top fashion books to read this winter.
Check out the full list: https://bit.ly/4oqjYSY
#BookSky #FashionSky @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
Fairchild Books has just released two essential patternmaking guides for your toolkit:
📘 Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics (2nd Edition)
📙 Patternmaking for Menswear (2nd Edition)
Find more in-depth design textbooks at fairchildbooks.com ✨
Save the date for a deep dive into the evolution of bridalwear over three centuries from Lydia Edwards - out 19th Feb in the UK, US & beyond*
RSVP to: your favourite bookstore...
*Cherished guests from Australia & NZ please note your happy (publication) day is 2nd April 💕
It’s publication day for Valerie Steele's new book!
Discover the hidden depths of fashion with her pathbreaking cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis, which accompanies the Dress, Dreams, and Desire exhibition on at The Museum at FIT until 4 Jan.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/4oFa6FR
New research out this month! ✨
Recommend Canadian Fashion Economies and Fashion Communications between Italy and China to your library 📚
As it’s International #OpenAccessWeek2025, we thought what better time to remind you that these five books are all available to read for free online now, including Antigender Fashion and How Textile Communicates, that both released OA just this year.
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Shortlisted for the Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2025, this collection presents fresh perspectives on the historical significance of immigrants as both laborers and specialists in textile and apparel production worldwide.
Out now in paperback: bit.ly/3Ww8RMx
Available now in paperback!
Becky Peterson broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film.
Find out more: bit.ly/46QA9BU
Out now!
Follow 25 fashion entrepreneurs' journeys of self-expression, identity formation and resistance in creating their own brands that challenge heteronormativity.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/46W0Rug
Now in paperback!
Laura Snelgrove explores the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, asking how and why mothering and the motherly body have been defined, enhanced and policed by dress and the fashionable image.
Find out more: bit.ly/47QfVuy
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts and illustrations, Heather Akou explores the changing styles, business practices, and experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States.
Now in paperback! bit.ly/4lQFyi5
Yuniya Kawamura brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork and globalized digital media.
Second edition out now: bit.ly/45IqkFD
Out now!
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, @addressingart.bsky.social explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
Find out more: bit.ly/414koW9
Now available in paperback!
International scholars explore the material and immaterial value and meaning of luxury around the world, looking at how it is materialised and communicated between the luxury industry and the consumer.
Find out more: bit.ly/3URSiK8
Out today in paperback!
Daniel Delis Hill examines how the roles of American men, women and children changed in the post-Second World War era, and how dress reflected and reinforced the new identities.
Find out more: bit.ly/4kVZM9E
Out next week!
José Blanco F. & Raúl J. Vázquez-López combine new material and previously published essays that review diverse aspects of visual culture in Puerto Rico.
First release in hardback - ask your library to order their copy now!
Find out more: bit.ly/46TuIDU
Until midnight (GMT) Sunday 20thJuly, get up to 30% off across our range of fashion books on Bloomsbury.com.
Get that book you’ve had your eye on: bit.ly/4lpXfp4
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