As much as I love the Net, most of the information I've used in my  writing  has come from old fashioned books and magazines. I gratefully acknowledge the following sources:

Adburgham, Alison
Liberty's: A biography of a Shop. London: Geroge Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1975.

Baseman, Andrew and  Carlton, Harold,
The Scarf, NewYork: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1989.

Blass, Bill
Bare Blass, New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

California Stylist, various issues

Carter, Ernestine
Magic Names of Fashion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice Hall, 1980

Callan, Georgina O'Hara
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion. London:Thames and Hudson, 1989, 1998.

Chambers, Bernice G.
Fashion Fundamentals. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1947.

Collectibles: Flea Market Finds
Fall 1998.  Enid Collins Handbags, by Jennie Litt

Winter 1998.  Very Vera, by Cathy Cook.

Daves, Jessica
Ready-Made Miracle. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,1967.

Ewing, Elizabeth
History of 20th Century Fashion. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1974.

Glamour, various issues

Harper's Bazaar, various issues

Kennett, Frances
The Collector's Book of Fashion. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Secrets of the Couturiers.New York: Exeter Books, 1984.

Koda, Harold and Bolton, Andrew
Chanel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005

Kyoto Costume Institute,
Fashion.  Taschen: Cologne,

Lambert, Eleanor
World of Fashion. New York: R.R.Bowker Company, 1976.

Lavine, W. Robert
In a Glamorous Fashion. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1979.

Lencek, Lena & Bosker, Gideon
Making Waves. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989.

Levin, Phyllis Lee
The Wheels of Fashion. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965.

Lobenthal, Joel
Radical Rags.New York: Abbeville Press, 1990

Martin, Richard
American Ingenuity, Sportswear 1930s - 1970s. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Editor, The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1997.

McDowell, Colin
McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1985

Milbank, Caroline Rennolds
New York Fashion. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1989.

Reilly, Maureen
California Casual. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001.

California Couture.  Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2000

Rose,Helen
Just Make Them Beautiful. Santa Monica, CA: Dennis-Landman Publishers, 1976

Seventeen, various issues

Springs, Elliott White
Clothes Make the Man. New York: Empyrean Press, 1953.

Stegemeyer, Anne
Who's Who in Fashion. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1980, 1988.

Vogue, various issues

Warner, Patricia Campbell
When the Girls Came Out to Play. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006

Williams, Beryl
Fashion Is Our Business. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1945.

Young Faces in Fashion. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1956.

Yohannan, Kohle and Nolf, Nancy
Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.