Retail Merchandising, Textiles and Costume

• Departmental Representatives
• Abstracts and Indexes
• Library Catalogs
• Reference Books
• Journals
• Library of Congress Call numbers
• Web Sites

The purpose of this guide is to highlight library resources at Ohio University and provide links to Internet resources for the fields of Retail Merchandising, including the apparel industry and fashion world, for textiles, and for the historical and cultural study of costume.

Departmental Representatives

Most professional librarians serve as Subject Librarians for one or more academic departments or programs. They work with faculty members to develop the library's collection, promote its use and provide library instruction.

For the area of Retail Merchandising, the Subject Librarian is:

The faculty library liaison person is:

Abstracts and Indexes

Use these sources for finding journal articles and perhaps other published sources of information.

Apparel & Textile Industries / Contemporary Fashion

Business Source Premier

Availability: All Ohio University computers + off-campus

• In-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics.
• Indexes academic journals, general business and economic periodicals and marketing publications, trade and professional publications; 150-200 word summaries of articles.
• Full-text of many, but not all, articles is available by following the "Retrieve Full Text" link.

Business & Industry (B&I)

URL: rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/bsin

Availability: All Ohio University computers + off-campus

• Broad-based business information database of articles from trade publications, national, international, regional newspapers, business dailies, and newsletters.
• Over 75 percent full-text coverage; the remaining records include informative abstracts that highlight the key information and facts discussed in the text.
• Offers a variety of ways to search, including business concepts, marketing terms, industries, SIC codes, article types, and geographic regions.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

URL: www.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Availability: All Ohio University computers + off-campus (for off-campus use logon using OhioLINK: www.ohiolink.edu)

• More than 1 billion documents (all full-text) from thousands of sources: American and international newspapers; magazines and journals; business and industry publications, including Women's Wear Daily and DNR; company profiles and financial reports; legal materials, including court cases and law codes; reference sources.

Academic Search Complete

Availability: All Ohio University computers + off-campus

• Covers a broad range of topics, providing access to significant articles appearing in more than 3400 periodicals, including the most popular magazines and the most highly respected, important academic journals.
• Provides indexing and short summaries of all articles.
• Full-text of some articles is available.

Art Abstracts

URL: rave.ohiolin.edu/databases/login/arti

Availability: All Ohio University computers + off-campus

• Covers about 220 art and design publications from around the world, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as many European periodicals.

Clothing and Textile Arts Index (print index)

Location: Alden Reference Department

Call Number: Ref. TT 507 C56x

• Covers 1970-1993
• Index to periodical articles "concerned with the behavioral, historic and artistic study and use of clothing and textile items."

Library Catalogs (for finding books, journals, videos, etc.)

Library catalogs generally include references for materials such as books, journals, and videos owned by a particular library or group of libraries. They do not include articles within journals; to access articles, use Indexes and Abstracts.

ALICE: Ohio University Libraries' Online Catalog (Web version)

ALICE is the name of the online library catalog for all campuses of Ohio University - Athens, Chillicothe, Eastern, Lancaster, Southern, and Zanesville. (See handout on "Using ALICE" for more information.)

OhioLINK Central Catalog

The OhioLINK Central Catalog represents the combined holdings of more than seventy libraries around the state. (See handout: "Online Borrowing from OhioLINK Libraries.")

WorldCat

WorldCat is an international database for bibliographic information catalogued by many thousands of libraries. Consists of over 30 million bibliographic records. This is a good database for identifying materials not held in Ohio libraries. You can't borrow directly through this database. If you find materials here that are not available through OhioLINK, use Ohio University's Interlibrary Loan service.

Reference Books

Including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, statistical sources.

All listed items (at least the latest editions) are located in the Reference Department, 4th Floor, Alden Library.

Apparel & Textile Industries / Contemporary Fashion

ATI Official North American Textile Red Book. (Annual)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TS1312 .A86

Dictionary of Retailing and Merchandising. (1995)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: HF1001 .R793 1995.

Directory of European Retailers. (Biennial)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference (latest) and Athens General Stacks

Call Number: HF54.G7 S8.

Encyclopedia of Fashion Details. (1987)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TT509 .I69 1987.

Fabric Reference. (2000)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TS 1445 .H85 2000

Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion. (1998)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TT503 .C34 1998x.

Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. (1996)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TS1309 .F34 1996x..

Fairchild's Textile & Apparel Financial Directory. (Annual)

Location: S Alden 4th Fl Reference (latest) & Athens Gen. Collections

Call Number: HD9853 .F34x.

Fashion Production Terms. (1979)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TT494 .G56.

Icons of Fashion : the 20th Century. (1999)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TT504 .I28 1999.

Plunkett's Retail Industry Almanac. (Biennial)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: HF 5429.3 .P596x

Retail Trade International. (Annual)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference Desk

Call Number: HF5429 .R48x.

St. James Fashion Encyclopedia : Survey of Style from 1945 to the Present. (1996)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TT505.A1 S7 1v996x.

Sheldon's Major Stores & Chains & Resident Buying Offices. (Annual)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference (latest) and Athens Gen. Collections

Call Number: HF5429.3 .S52.

World Retail Data and Statistics. (Annual)

Location: Athens Gen. Collections & Alden 4th Fl Reference (latest)

Call Number: HF5429 .E914x

World Retail Directory and Sourcebook. (Biennial)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: HF 5428 .W67

Costume & History of Fashion / Textile Design

The Chronicle of Western Fashion : From Ancient Times to the Present Day. (1991)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: GT511 .P42 1991.

Costume/Clothing/Fashion, Information Access : Sources and Techniques. (1993)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: Z5691 .O38 1993x.

Decades of Beauty : The Changing Image of Women, 1890s-1990s. (1998)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: HQ1219 .M85 1998.

Encyclopedia of Textiles. (1980)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: TS1445 .A18 1980.

Ethnic Dress. (1995)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: GT511 .K46 1995.

Fashion and Costume in American Popular Culture : A Reference Guide. (1996)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: Z5694.U5 O45 1996.

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Costume and Fashion : From 1066 to the Present. (1998)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: GT730 .C37 1998x.

100 Years of Style by Decade & Design. (2001)

Location: Alden 4th Fl Reference

Call Number: GT596 .W378 2001x. 5 vols.

Journals (Print & Electronic Subscriptions)

Below is a selected list of journals in Alden Library, with call numbers. Except as noted, the recent issues are in the Current Periodicals Collection, 2nd floor of Alden Library. Older volumes are in the General Stacks (6th and 7th floors) or the Microforms Collection (1st floor). Follow the links to ALICE for exact holdings and locations for both print and online access.

Library of Congress Call numbers for related subjects

Web Sites

Meta Sites

Angel of Fashion

URL: www.fashionangel.com/linkpages/

An evaluative directory of fashion sites that are awarded the "angel of fashion" for innovation and creativity. The site links to alternative fashion sites, e-zines, designers, modeling, and much more. Starting at this site gives an excellent overview of the richness of fashion information available.

Brick-and-Mortar Retailing & Internet Retailing

URL: www.knowthis.com/other/retailing.htm

This page on retailing at the Marketing Virtual Library lists many of the major retailing Web sites.

Fashionlink

URL: www.fashionlink.org

This site organizes international sites in the categories of Fashion Sites, Global Retail Fashion, Global Wholesale Fashion, and Other Fashion Sources. The fashion sites are primarily designer websites, organized by nationality. There's a lengthy list of links to Magazines in the Other Fashion Sources section, as well as lists of Trade & Standards organizations, school of fashion and TV sites.

FashionNet

URL: www.fashion.net

A site for links to other fashion sites, for fashion news and career information and job listings. There's a search engine for fashion-related sites.

Industry Information

Apparel Net: The OnLine Guide for the Apparel Industry

URL: www.apparel.net

Has sections devoted to Accessories, Catalogues, Clothing, Designers, Fashion, Humor, Information, Malls & Marts, Manufacturing, Organizations, Retail, Services and Products. Provides many, many links to fashion and design industry websites.

Fashion Windows: The Internet's Database on Fashion Designers, Visual Merchandising, and Mannequins

URL: www.fashionwindows.com

The site has four main sections: the topics in its name plus "Store Windows." Each section provides news stories, biographies, company lists with links, photos, and other unique features, such as a VM dictionary. The designer information includes biographies and reviews of runway shows and lines.

FiberSource

URL: www.fibersource.com

Resource for information on fibers of man-made synthetic and cellulosic polymers. Extensive links to industrial, organizational, governmental, and educational sites.

National Retail Federation

URL: www.nrf.com/home.asp

"As the world's largest retail trade association, NRF's mission is to conduct programs and services in research, education, training, information technology, and government affairs to protect and advance the interests of the retail industry."

Retail Trade, Economic Census for 1997

URL: www.census.gov/epcd/www/97EC44.HTM

The Economic Census profiles the US economy every 5 years. The site publishes data reports (PDF format) for the retail trade sector for the U.S., states, counties, places, and metropolitan areas. The AmericanFactFinder at the Census Bureau site (http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet) can assist in locating very specific kinds of data from the Economic Census.

Textiles.org

URL: www.textiles.org/

"...easy access to information needed by textile artists and others with an interest in the textiles industry." Lists upcoming events, books, Web sites, and people involved in textiles.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Office of Textiles and Apparel

URL: otexa.ita.doc.gov

Information on exports, trade data, trade agreements, import quotas, etc.

E-Zines

(See the Angel of Fashion website for a more complete listing.)

Apparel News

URL: www.apparelnews.net

From the publishers of several apparel industry magazines, this online version features apparel trade and fashion news and events. The archive of selected magazine features begins with 1999.

Fashion Click: The Online Fashion and Style Magazine

URL: www.fashionclick.com

Covers fashion and collections as well as standard fashion magazine fare. In addition to the current issue, maintains highlights of past issues. In Spanish and English.

Fashion Planet.

URL: www.fashion-planet.com

This online magazine includes daily updated news items relating to the fashion industry. "Windows on New York" is a map of 5th, Madison, and 57th Street, with images of and links to the various stores located in this area.

Fashion Navigator

URL: www.fashion.at

From the Austrian Fashion Office, this site includes articles on beauty, collections, films, culture, and music, in English and German.

The Look Online

URL: www.lookonline.com

Sponsored by Smashbox Cosmetics, provides fashion industry information for visitors and subscribers.

Lumiere

URL: www.lumiere.com

Begun in 1995, Lumiere is an upscale fashion and style magazine published exclusively on the Internet. Lumiere provides in-depth and up-to-the-minute information on fashion, beauty, and contemporary culture.

Stores Magazine Online

URL: http://www.stores.org/

The magazine site includes selected stories from current and past issues. It also provides the Stores Retail Buying Guide, a "resource for identifying suppliers to the retail industry" and "Top Ten Lists" in three categories: general, specialty, and global. The general retailing report also provides top 20 lists of apparel stores, department stores, discount/value stores, drug stores, home improvement/building supply/farm stores, and supermarkets.

Images

fashionpool.de

URL: fashionpool.de

The first internet fashion exhibition. A creative resource of designer showrooms where you can view up-to-date designer collections, get info about boutiques and give direct feedback to the companies. Designed for the Netscape browser.

FirstVIEW

URL: www.firstview.com

An independent fashion publication, FirstVIEW provides access to tens of thousands of photos and videos of the world's top designers' collections - straight from Milan, Paris, New York and London. The latest photos (designs not yet in stores) require a $5.95/hour password.

Style.com

URL: http://www.style.com

"The online home of Vogue and W magazine." This site for the general public features content from Vogue and W. Notable for its collections of runway photos and collection reviews in the "Fashion Shows" section; also features a section called "Trends."

Metasites

The Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online

URL: users.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html

An "index of costume and costuming-related links, for the benefit of those who make and/or study costumes: costumers, students, historical re-enactors, science fiction fans, dancers, theatrical costumers, and those interested in fashion, textile art, and costume history. " This is a comprehensive site, but it has not been maintained since 2/2001.

www.costumes.org

URL: www.costumes.org

This site is the work of Tara Maginnis, a costume designer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as part of her how-to-manual, "The Costumer's Manifesto." There's access to text and images at many, many specialized costume and museum sites, providing rich historical and visual background. There are also links to suppliers of all kinds of costuming needs.

The Costume Gallery

URL: www.costumegallery.com

A site that provides over 500 links to costume designers, products and service, costume history and research, textile definitions and data, online costume classes, and just-for-fun features, such as the online costume ball.

FabricLink - The Educational Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings and Care

URL: http://www.FabricLink.com/home.html

A consumer-oriented site with lots of information about fabrics and textiles, including a stain removal guide, a charted history of fibers, and brief descriptions of fiber characteristics. There are also descriptions of the fabrics made from various fibers, and the care of items made from them.

Images

Godey's Lady's Book Online

URL: www.history.rochester.edu/godeys

"Godey's Lady's Book was one of the most popular lady's books of the 19th century. Each issue contained poetry, beautiful engraving and articles by some of the most well known authors in America. "

The History of Costume

URL: http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

The "History of Costume" or "Zur Geschichte der Kostüme" was printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the publishing firm of Braun & Schneider. It contained 500 plates illustrating historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century.

Organizations

American Textile Manufacturers Institute

URL: www.textileweb.com

The Costume Society of America

URL: www.costumesocietyamerica.com

The Costume Society

URL: www.costumesociety.org.uk/

International Costumer's Guild

URL: www.costume.org

Textile Museum

URL:www.textilemuseum.org