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Guide to library resources for the two research projects. Please note the historical fashion periodicals in the Art Library link.
Primary sources: Early 20th-century fashion magazines in the Art Library
The Art Library Locked Stacks collection has several early 20th-century fashion magazines. Titles and descriptions are below. We also have several issues of a current fashion journal, Visionaire. Request material online or at the circulation desk.
To discover other periodicals at Stanford, use Searchworks and Search by subject. Enter fashion periodicals.
- Harper's Bazaar ArchiveDatabase. Published 1867-present. Full-text searching including advertisements.
- Vogue ArchiveDatabase. Coverage begins Dec. 17, 1892. Full text searching including covers and advertisments.
- Art, goût, beauté : feuillets de l'élégance féminineLuxurious fashion magazine published in Paris from 1920-1933. The Art Library has issues from 1922 and 1927 only. Pochoir illustrations.
- Gazette du Bon Ton: art, modes & frivolitésParisian fashion, lifestyle and beauty magazine published from 1912-1925. Features pochoir fashion plates of designs by Poiret, Worth, and others.
- Le Goût du jourPublished 1918-1920. The Art Library has June-December,1920.
- Journal des dames et des modesPublished 1912-1914.
- Modes et manières d'aujourd'huiPublished 1912-1923. The Art Library owns 1912-1922.
- StylGerman fashion magazine from 1922-1924 with hand-colored engravings.
