The Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library will be the first comprehensive online collection for the study of dress and costume history, design and making.
Launching in June 2023, it will take its place as part of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform.
It will bring together the Encyclopedia of Film and TV Costume, an exclusive and authoritative reference work on costume on screen, along with a curated collection of monographs, practical eBooks and historic works such as Norah Waugh’s Cut of Women’s Clothes.
Available via perpetual access or subscription to institutions worldwide.
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• An exclusive reference work, The Encyclopedia of Film and TV Costume; edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, internationally-renowned costume designer turned UCLA professor. It will provide comprehensive coverage of global costume design across all periods of film history.
• The legendary Norah Waugh’s classic works Cut of Men’s Clothes and Cut of Women’s Clothes will be available exclusively in digital format for the first time.
• 20 titles from the Routledge Focal Press Costume Topics series, exploring practical costume-making techniques.
• A collection of rigorous scholarly eBooks including newly-published dress history titles, as well as practical guides and introductory overviews, curated by leading dress historian Valerie Cumming.
• Contextual articles written by Valerie Cumming - including case studies, overviews, thematic introductions and object close readings - to help students and researchers understand the historiography of dress history.
• Nine titles from ABC-Clio with reference content that provides fantastic pedagogical value; several titles explore dress and costume across cultures and throughout history, including The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History and National Dress, and the Encyclopedia of Traditional Clothing around the World.
• Three expansive reference titles from the classic Fashions In series by Richard Corson, covering ‘Hair’, ‘Make-Up’ and ‘Eyeglasses’ now exclusively available in digital format
• A Lesson Plan and a Bibliographic Guide written by esteemed academics Lydia Edwards and Ingrid Mida, authors of popular dress history titles, How to Read a Dress, How to Read a Suit and The Dress Detective.
• Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library will be a strong complement to Berg Fashion Library - with its own distinct offerings - it will be also fully cross-searchable with all other Fashion Central collections.
