Fashion Timeline Project
                                                                        The Assignment    Resources
 

The Assignment:  Research your assigned fashion era or decade and create a picture poster depicting men's and women's fashions of that era.  Illustrations may be printed off of the Internet, sketched and colored free hand, taken from magazines or catalogues, or an actual photography may be used to illustrate your poster.  Pictures must be at least 8" high to insure optimum visibility, since the timeline will hang in the space above the windows.  Poster board will be provided for you.

Investigate the following fashion influences:
Culture  -  war, trade, entertainment
Lifestyle - climate, work leisure
Communication - marital status, social status, religious affiliation
Technology - inventions, production, science

Write a one page report, 12" font detailing your findings.  Be sure to include fashion trends of the times such as hemlines, embellishments, accessories, necklines, silhouette, etc.

Include documentation from a minimum of 3 sources using MLA format - at least one should be a book

Resources

Your search begins

OPAC
Power (Advanced Search) - fashion and history   fashion designers

Browsing the shelves - look in
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Use the database Masterfile Premier (ebsco) to locate magazine articles on fashion
Use the database Historical Newspapers  -  (Proquest) to locate New York Times newspapers articles on fashion from 1865 - 1997
Use the database NewsBank - to locate newspaper articles on fashion from newspapers throughout the United States including the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer

Web Resources

Fashion Eras - has over  300 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History
Costumer's Manifesto - fashions are arranged by decade
Fashion Past and Present - scroll down for links to fashion sites
Vogue Online - read the fashion shows and fashion notes
The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising - use this to site to learn about how to open your own fashion company
Fabrics - this is your complete source for everything textiles

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