Berg Fashion Library (Oxford)
Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion. It covers all regions of the world, with in-depth content from pre-history to the present day contributed by internationally-renowned scholars. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.
Subjects: Arts, Biography, History, New Zealand, Science & technology
Audience: General public, Secondary students, Tertiary students
Content type: Homework resources, Research articles, Quick facts, Images
EPIC subscription option: EPIC Opt-in Product
Berg Fashion Library contains over 760 original articles on countries, themes, cultural groups, and dress types written by over 600 international experts, an extensive colour image bank including 1,600 images from the V&A Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection and 2,000 from the print Encyclopedia. Users can also restrict quick and advanced searches to images only. Updated at least three times a year to keep students, scholars, and professionals at the cutting edge of their subject. Extra reference resources, such as an A-Z of Fashion and a Dictionary of Key Terms. Specially-created taxonomy guides users to the information they need, and allows them to refine by place, period, themes, textiles and much more.
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Page last updated: 27 January 2011.
