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• Skirts

  Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

  Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly,

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  While the story of women’s liberation and their shifting roles has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the 20th century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts.

• Walk This Way

  Footwear From the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes

  Maeder, Edward,

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  Lavishly illustrated with one hundred color photographs from the Stuart Weitzman Collection, this volume explores the impact of twentieth-century design and culture on the evolution of women's shoes from 1870-1980.

• Our Shoes, Our Selves

  40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes

  Moynahan, Bridget, 1972-

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  In Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes, actress Moynahan and journalist Amanda Benchley ask 40 accomplished women to recount the memories behind their most meaningful pair of shoes.

• Iris Apfel

  Accidental Icon : Musings of a Geriatric Starlet

  Apfel, Iris Barrel, 1921-2024,

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  A collection of musings, anecdotes, and observations on all matters of life and style by the fashion icon whose work has been celebrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and by fans worldwide.

• Fashion

  the Definitive Visual Guide

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  From Ancient Egypt and Marie Antionette to Alexander McQueen and Chanel, this stunning fashion design book from Dorling Kindersley charts the evolution of clothing, showing how every generation reinvents what they wear.

• Dress Like a Woman

  Working Women and What They Wore

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  A woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, or scientist. So what does it mean to dress like a woman? This book includes 240 photographs illustrating how women’s roles have changed.

• Glory

  Magical Visions of Black Beauty

  Bethencourt, Kahran,

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  From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children.

• The Dress Diary

  Secrets From a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe

  Strasdin, Kate,

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  With the discovery of one woman’s textile scrapbook, fashion historian and museum curator Strasdin unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting our human experience piece by piece.

• The Red Menace

  How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History

  Carter, Ilise S., 1973-

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  This history of lipstick in America beginning in the 20th century will give readers a look at the little tube’s big place in modern America: marching with the Suffragettes, building Fortune 500 businesses, and even traveling in space.

• Pockets

  An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

  Carlson, Hannah (Historian),

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  Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? Carlson, a dress history lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how we tuck gender politics, security, sexuality, and privilege in our pockets.