Sometimes my local Garment Guild has meetings that are more like outings! To close this season we had a tour of a fashion exhibit newly inst...

  I'm always interested in fashion history, so I picked up this book from my library and dug right into it. It is exactly what it says: ...

  The funny thing about me picking up this book is that I have only seen the first two episodes of this show. I couldn't get into it at ...

  Vintage Fashion / Ottilie Godfrey London: Arcturus, c2013. 128 p. I picked up this little book at the library -- I mean, look at that cove...

  Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread / Dorothy Grant Victoria, BC: Figure 1 Publishing, c2024. 176 p. I came across this book in my library...

  From the Rez to the Runway / Christian Allaire   TO: HarperCollins, c2025. 272 p. Christian Allaire (author of The Power of Style ) has ju...

  Supreme Models / Marcellas Reynolds   NY: Abrams, c2019. 240 p. Something a little different today - rather than strictly sewing, this is ...

Heart on my Sleeve / Jeanne Beker TO: Simon & Schuster, c2024.  256 p. This memoir by Canadian fashion icon Jeanne Beker was a delight. ...

Young Originals / Rebecca Jumper Matheson Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech UP, c2015. 240 p. This is a book about style, but in a very particular way...

  Dressing the Resistance: the visual language of  protest through history / Camille Benda NY: Princeton Architectural Press, c2021. 208 p. ...

  Taylor Swift Style / Sarah Chapelle NY: St Martins Griffin, c2024. 352 p. This book came in to my library recently and I thought I would c...

When I was going through some boxes of old stuff recently, I came across a book of paper dolls that I had forgotten I ever had. How it has s...

  Private Label / Kelly Yang NY: HarperCollins, c2022. 404 p. I wanted to read this one because of its link to fashion -- the main character...

  The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon / Sarah Steele London: Headline, c2020. 416 p. This is a typical kind of British family saga, in that the...

  Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris / Paul Gallico NY: Bloomsbury, 2022, c1963 320 p. I've always known about this book but didn't read it u...

  Willi Smith, Street Couture / Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, ed. NY: Rizzoli Electa, c2020 256 p. Willi Smith: Street Couture is a compani...

  Dress Code / Véronique Hyland NY: HarperCollins, c2022. 288 p. This is a book of essays by a fashion journalist, one which I picked up mai...

  By Her Own Design / Piper Huguley NY: William Morrow, c2022. 367 p. This is a novel based on the life of Ann Lowe, a Black designer who se...

  Clothes-Pegs / Susan Scarlett London: Dean Street Press, 2022, c1939. 206 p. This is a reprint of the first romance by Susan Scarlett, the...

  Finding Myself in Fashion / Jeanne Beker TO: Penguin, c2011 230 p. Canadian readers will recognize this author immediately! Jeanne Beker i...