My fashion history reading list ft. Fashionary

The books behind the Goddess Project, my full fashion history reading list. Draped dress has a thesis: it receives the body rather than correcting it. So, to understand why that matters, I had to go back a long way. Not just to the designers who made it famous, but to the women who first picked up a spindle. These are the books that took me there. BOOKS MENTIONED Textile & Women's History Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years — Elizabeth Wayland Barber The Golden Thread — Kassia St Clair The Secret Lives of Colour — Kassia St Clair The Fabric of Civilisation — Virginia Postrel Empire of Cotton — Sven Beckert Design & Fashion History Fortuny: Time, Space, Light — Wendy Ligon Smith Madame Grès Couture Paris — Olivier Saillard Dressed — Shahidha Bari Fashion: The Whole Story — Marnie Fogg Context & Theory Orientalism — Edward Said The Odyssey — Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Odyssey — Stephen Fry The Women of Troy — Euripides Professional Tools Fashionpedia — Fashionary Textilepedia — Fashionary Stylepedia — Fashionary The Knitwear Manual — Fashionary Fashion Business Manual — Fashionary DISCOUNT CODES & PARTNERSHIPS Fashionary — use code GODDESS10 for 10% off everything including FashionDraw and PatternDraw https://fashionary.org/collections/al... Kobo Libra (gifted) https://au.kobobooks.com/ Quirky Cup Collective (gifted) Persephone bundle and Literati Sage bundle https://thequirkycupcollective.com.au/ THE GODDESS PROJECT A content series tracing the history of draped dress from ancient Mesopotamia to the 20th century: carousels, essays, and a podcast going six layers deep into the research. Instagram:   / veronicatuckerthelabel   Substack: https://veronicatuckerthelabel.substa... - I’m joining the Readings Big Book Club working through the Odyssey. The deeper mythology dive lives here. Culture of Cloth Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast... The series culminates in Esther, a draped dress and blouse sewing pattern currently in development. Paid partnership with @fashionary | Gifted by @kobo and @thequirkycupcollective