Clothing and fabric

We did accessories - how about clothes?

I see by my outfit
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History
Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes (Dress, Body, Culture)
Fashion (Oxford History of Art)
A history of dyed textiles
A history of printed textiles

Oh, where to begin?

Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics, by Jacques Damase
Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920, by Barbara Schreier
The Little Black Dress, by Amy Holman Edelman
Chanel Solitaire, by Claude Baillen
Virtual vintage : the insider's guide to buying and selling fashion online, by Linda Lindroth

and underneath it all:

The history of underclothes, by C. Willett Cunnington

I may have to look up that last one.

I took a History of Fashion class (hence the fashion history books...) and find things like that bizarrely interesting.

This stumped me, but here are five things you wouldn't want to get on your clothing or fabric:

A Spot of Bother
A Black Mark
The Human Stain
Fire and Ice
Snow

Three Black Skirts Anna Johnson
The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
Fashion History: Western Dress Prehistoric to the Present Terry Bigelow
Fierce Pajamas The New Yorker

First you get a couple lengths of:
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
The Velvet Hammer by Faith Baldwin

Then find:
The Scarlet Thread by Evelyn Anthony

Next have her stitch it up:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Or you could end up:
Naked in Death by J. D. Robb ;-)

This is too much fun!

Take
Arsenic and old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson

Iron out
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Add
Silk Stalkings by Victoria Nichols

And you have a
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear by Leslea Newman
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: tales of growing up groovy by Susan Jane Gilman
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Blue Shoes and happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
A Sarong in My Backpack by Ayun Halliday

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
T-Shirt and Genes Richard Asplin
The Boy with No Shoes: A Memoir William Horwood
A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters

Little Black Dress by Loren D. Estleman
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
A Dress to Die For by Dolores Johnson
No Pockets in a Shroud by Horace McCoy

I Wish I Had A Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
Ties That Bind by Phillip Margolin
The Hatwearer's Lesson by Yolanda Joe
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughts
Cotton Song by Tom Bailey

The Black Velvet Gown by Catherine Cookson
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Framed in Lace by Monica Ferris
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff
Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Shroud for a Nightengale by P.D. James
The Silken Shroud by ElizaBeth Gilligan
At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts by Bill Amend (touchstone wonky)
Chicks in Chainmail edited by Esther Friesner

The adventures of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey
The embroidered sunset Joan Aiken
The man in the gray flannel suit Sloan Wilson
Men in Kilts Kate MacAlister

No shirt, no shoes, no problem Jeff Foxworthy

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
Puffball Fay Weldon
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
The Woolpack Cynthia Harnett
The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie