Research Guides
Fashion
Internet Resources / Electronic
Databases / Videorecordings / Periodicals
/ Reference Books
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American Apparel & Footwear
Association (AAFA)
http://www.apparelandfootwear.org/
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) is the national trade
association representing apparel, footwear and other sewn products companies,
and their suppliers. The site provides news, statistics, industry trends and
other links.
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
Comprehensive database of statistics from the United States Census Bureau
Costumer’s Manifesto—Costumes.org
http://www.costumes.org
Maintained by a theatre professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, it
provides links to a wide variety of costume sites, including history of sites.
Fashion (About.com)
http://fashion.about.com
Information about the fashion industry and suggested fashion sites.
Fashion:
Past & Present
http://www.teacheroz.com/fashionhistory.htm
A directory of link to sites on the history of fashion and costumes
Fashion Wire Daily
http://www.fashionwiredaily.com
Covers the latest news and trends of the fashion industry.
Hoover's
http://www.hoovers.com/
Information and company profiles for more than 50,000 of the largest or fastest
growing public and private U.S. companies.
MSN.com Money
Page
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
Financial news, stock information, company research, etc.
ReferenceUSA
Business (Available through the South Central Library System)
http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/cgi-bin/auth.cgi?connectto=RU
ReferenceUSA Business provides directory information for about 12 million U.S.
businesses of all sizes. Search by phone number, address, CEO, estimated sales
and much more.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus Users.
Academic
Universe(Lexis-Nexis)
Provides full-text indexing to national newspapers and local newspapers like
the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times. Also provides business news journals,
company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market
news.
Business
& Company Resource Center
Contains detailed information on 448,000 U.S. and international companies and
over 1,000 major U.S. and global industries.
General
Reference Center Gold
A very large, diverse general and popular topic database with full text, abstracts
and indexing to more than 2700 periodicals.
MasterFILE
Provides full-text from over 1,810 general reference, business, consumer health,
plus many more periodicals. Also offers indexing for over 2,780 periodicals.
Proquest
Online Newspapers
Database of national, regional and local newspapers.
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The library collects regular updates of the video series Videofashion News
(746.92 VFN 2003 VIDEO). Many other fashion videos are in the 390’s and
740’s of the AV stacks. Students may check out Student AV materials and
are welcome to view Staff AV materials in the library.
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Glamour
GQ
Vogue
WWD
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MATC Library Online Catalog
Reference Books are for in-library use only. They are not available to checkout
of the library.
Click on a title to see if it's available in the
library; a new window will open when you click a title.
R391.003 C143
Fairchild’s dictionary of fashion.
R391.009 F248
The fashion book.
R746.9203 ST143
St. James fashion encyclopedia.
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