books part 2, library books

Here is a complete list of every single book I have out of the library.
The descriptions on the first 10 were a part of the annotated bibliography for my book collecting contest application. I don’t own them but I’d like to one day.

1. Hollander, Anne. Sex and Suits. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
A history of the suit and how it has sustained its fashionability for over two hundred years almost untouched.

2. Barthes, Roland. The Fashion System. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
An account of the meanings both hidden and precise of the language of written fashion. Barthes uses semiology to describe the ways in which clothing’s functions and meanings are communicated.

3. Barnard, Malcom. Fashion as Communication. London: Routledge, 2002.
A book that deals with the social and psychological aspects of dress; getting it out of the library inspired the entire project, using fashion as a means for emotional communication.

5. Flügel, J. C. The Psychology of Clothes. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-analysis, 1966.
This book presents the theories of fashion changes and constants. He breaks fashion down into decoration, modesty and protection. I want to read it because it is listed under Anne Hollander’s books cited, in both ‘Sex and Suits’ and ‘Seeing Through Clothes.

6. Lurie, Alison. The Language of Fashion. New York: Owl books, 2000.
A synopsis of how fashion can be a language, Be it well spoken or awkwardly stated, is always communicating something. I read excerpts of this book in a course reader at UC Santa Cruz. I absolutely fell in love with the idea of fashion as a language. I, though I was already doing this, decided to consciously learn to speak my own voice through my fashion from that point on.

7. Scott, Linda M. Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
An argument for fashion and makeup being totally viable and feminine tools. I’m not sure if I’m even going to agree with this book, I have yet to read it and am waiting to until I can read ‘The Beauty Myth’ its counter-argument against makeup and fashion, at the same time. I think it will be good facts to learn whether I disagree or agree with the arguments in either book.

8. Riordan, Teresa. Inventing Beauty. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.
A history, divided up into sections: eyes, lips, breasts, hair, skin waist, hands, hips, derriere written by the New York Times patents columnist. She says that she thought she was going to be against all this beauty stuff, but actually in researching it, she found that these inventions were created for women, by women. I got this out of the library this summer and promptly sat down and read two thirds of it—I cite facts from it in my somewhat counter-culture fashion column frequently enough that I’d like to own it when my 99 renewals are up.

9. Stipelman, Steven. Illustrating Fashion: Concept to Creation. New York: Fairchild Publications Inc., 2005.
The most comprehensive (461 page long) book I have seen on fashion illustration. Reading just the intro changed my drawing style for the better. It is beautifully designed and well written. I have it out from SRLF, so I only have to renew it once a quarter.

10. Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954.
A personal take on the changes of fashion, seen through the eyes of Cecil Beaton. This book was recommended to me by Cristina Favretto, Rare Books Librarian here at UCLA. It, like almost every other book on this list, I have out from the library and have been reading it in all the time that I’m not planning projects to help the world through fashion, technology and better human communication.

11. Material matters : the art and culture of contemporary textiles / edited by Ingrid Bachmann and Ruth Scheuing

12. Trocmé, Suzanne. Fabric

13. Barthes, Roland. Fashion system

14. Wojcik, Daniel. Punk and neo-tribal body art

15. Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts

16. Cox, Caroline. Hair & fashion

17. On fashion / edited by Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss.

18. Tanous, Helen Nicol, 1917- Designing your own dress patterns.

19. Dressed to impress : looking the part / edited by William J.F. Keenan ; foreword by David Martin.

20. Hurlock, Elizabeth Bergner, 1898- Psychology of dress : an analysis of fashion and its motive

21. Craik, Jennifer. Face of fashion : cultural studies in fashion

22. Picken, Mary Brooks. Language of fashion; a dictionary and digest of fabric, sewing and dress,

23. Corey, Marian. McCall’s complete book of dressmaking.

24. Butterick Publishing Company. Dressmaker; a complete book on all matters connected with sewing and dressmaking from the simplest stitches to the cutting, making altering, mending and caring for the clothes.

25. Pepin, Harriet, 1897- Fundamentals of apparel design.

26. Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition / edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins ; associate editor, Brad Seawell.

27. Scott, William T. Possibility of communication

28. Chase, Stuart. Power of words, by Stuart Chase in collaboration with Marian Tyler Chase.

29. Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy. Communication in everyday life : a social interpretation.

30. Finkelstein, Joanne. Fashioned self.

31. Hawes, Elizabeth, 1903-1971. It’s still spinach.

32. Bolton, Andrew, Associate curator. Bravehearts : men in skirts

33. Stipelman, Steven. Illustrating fashion : concept to creation

34. Peacock, John. Complete fashion sourcebook