Bailey, Margaret. Those Glamorous Years: Great Hollywood
Costume Designs of the 30s. New York: Carol Publishing Group,
l982. (Various Hollywood designers).
Berch, Bettina. Radical by Design: The Life and Style of Elizabeth
Hawes. New York: E. P. Dutton, l988. (Elizabeth Hawes)
Bullis, Douglas. California Fashion Designers. Layton,
Utah: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., l987. (Various designers contemporary
to publication date).
Burr, Carole Reid and Roger K. Peterson. Rose Marie
Reid: An Extraordinary Life Story. American Fork, Utah: Covenant
Communications, l995. (Rose Marie Reid)
Carter, Ernestine. The Changing World of Fashion.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, l977 (General with references to various
designers).
Cassini, Oleg. In My Own Fashion: An Autobiography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. (Oleg Cassini)
Coleman, Elizabeth Ann. The Genius of Charles James.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, l982. (Charles James)
Diamonstein, Barbaralee. Fashion: The Inside Story.
New York: Rizzoli, l985. (Various designers contemporary to publication
date).
Epstein Williams, Beryl. Fashion is our Business.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, l945.
Fogarty, Anne. Wife Dressing. New York: J. Messner,
l959. (Anne Fogarty)
Gaines, Steven. Simply Halston. New York: Jove
Books, l99l. (Halston)
Glynn, Prudence. In Fashion: Dress in the Twentieth
Century. New York: Oxford University Press, l978. (General work
with references to various designers).
Gould, Lois. Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After
a Fashion. New York: Doubleday, l998. (Jo Copeland)
Greer, Howard. Designing Male. New York: Putnam,
l95l. (Howard Greer)
Grubbo, J. The Coat: Tribute to Oleg Cassini.
New York: Jones, l994. (Oleg Cassini)
Head, Edith and Jane Kesner Ardmore. The Dress Doctor.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, l959. (Edith Head)
Head, Edith and Paddy Calistro. Edith Head's Hollywood.
New York: E. P. Dutton, l983. (Edith Head)
Lambert, Eleanor. The World of Fashion: People, Places
and Resources. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, l976. (Brief biographies
on designers, including accessory designers)
Lee, Sarah Tomerlin, editor. American Fashion:
The Life and Lines of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, Trigere.
New York: Fashion Institute of Technology, l975.
Leese, Elizabeth. Costume Design in the Movies. New
York: F. Ungar, l977. (Hollywood designers)
McCardell, Claire. What Shall I Wear? New York:
Simon and Shuster, l956. (Claire McCardell)
McConathy, Dale with Diana Vreeland. Hollywood Costume:
Glamour! Glitter! Romance! New York: H. N. Abrams, 1976. (Biographical
notes on various Hollywood designers).
Mackie, Bob. Dressing for Glamour. New York:
A & W Publishers, l979. (Bob Mackie)
Milbank, Caroline Rennolds. New York Fashion: The
Evolution of American Style. New York: Harry A. Abrams, Inc.,
l989. (Chronologically arranged with entries for various designers
in each decade).
Moffitt, Peggy. The Rudi Gernreich Book. New
York: Rizzoli, l99l. (Rudi Gernreich)
Moor, Jonathan. Perry Ellis: A Biography. New
York: St. Martin's Press, l986. (Perry Ellis)
Mulvagh, Jane. History of 20th Century
Vogue Fashion. New York: Viking, l988. (Chronologically arranged
with references to designers).
O=Hara, Georgina. The
Encyclopedia of Fashion. New York: Harry A. Abrams, Inc., l986.
(Biographical entries on various designers)
Rose, Helen. Just Make
Them Beautiful. Santa Monica, California: Dennis-Landman, l976.
(Helen Rose)
Sharaff, Irene. Broadway
and Hollywood: Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. New York: Van
Nostrand Reinhold Cos., l976. (Irene Sharaff)
Steele, Valerie. Women
of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers. New York: Rizzoli, l99l.
(Various women designers)
Stegemeyer, Anne. Who's
Who in Fashion. New York: Fairchild Publications, l988 (Second
edition). (Biographical entries on various designers)
Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. Ralph Lauren: The Man Behind
the Mystique. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, l988. (Ralph
Lauren)
Yohannan, Kohle and Nancy Wolf. Claire McCardell:
Redefining Modernism. New York: Harry A. Abrams, Inc., l998. (Claire
McCardell)
Walz, Barbra and Bernadine Morris. The Fashion Makers:
An Inside Look at America's Leading Designers. New York: Random
House, l978. (Various designers)
