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Tips and tricks

• Add the template {{Item documentation}} to the Discussion page of any item that is a <subclass of> another item. This template pre-builds a number of useful queries about the place of the item in its hierarchy.

Cradle

Tool for creating new Wikidata items using a form.

• Create a fashion designer
• Create a fashion house

References

Quick links to canonical reference works with items in Wikidata. Use for <stated in (P248)> references and <described by source (P1343)>:

Vocabularies

• Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume (Q18325477) (ICOM) Online
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Q611299) (Getty) Online
• Europeana Fashion Thesaurus v1 (Q28890038) PDF online RDF online

Costume dictionaries

• The Fashion Dictionary (Q28528317) (Picken, 1957 1st ed.)
• A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern (Q28859637) (Picken, Dover reprint) Google books
• Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion (Q28859712) (3rd edition)
• The Dictionary of Fashion History (Q28864320) (Cumming et al., 2010)
• The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Fashion (Q99982228)
• The Complete Costume Dictionary (Q100951991) (Lewandowski) [1]
• Visual Dictionary In Textiles & Apparel (Q104531089) (Elnashar et al., appendix with translations in Ukrainian and Russian) [2]

Costume history

• 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment (Q26271832) (Boucher)
• The Cut of Women's Clothes 1600–1930 (Q28864366) (Waugh)
• The Cut of Men's Clothes 1600–1900 (Q28888216) (Waugh)
• Survey of Historic Costume (Q28946484) (Tortora & Eubank, 2nd ed., 1994)
• Survey of Historic Costume (Q29002765) (Tortora & Eubank, 5th ed., 2010) Google books

Textiles

• Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles (Q28888841) (7th ed.)
• The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles (Q29047171) (2013 UK ed.) (Google books)
• Warp and Weft (Q28913836) (Burham, Canadian 1st 1980)
• A Textile Terminology: Warp and Weft (Q28913841) (Burnham, Australia 1982)
• Textile Terms and Definitions (Q52580215) (Manchester UP, 7th ed. 1975) (Internet Archive)
• A Dictionary of Lace (Q54685967) (Earnshaw, 1984, 2012 Dover reprint) (Google books)
• Visual Dictionary In Textiles & Apparel (Q104531089) (Elnashar et al., appendix with translations in Ukrainian and Russian) [3]
• ....

Needlework

• Samplers and Stitches (Q28940886) (Christie, 1921) OpenLibrary
• Embroidery (Q28940857) (Christie, 1909) Open Library
• Encyclopedia of Needlework (Q28939623) (Dillmont, 1890) Archive.org

Footwear

• Shoes (Q99702579) (Pratt & Woolley 1999) Archive.org
• Shoes (Q99703040) (Swann 1982) Archive.org

Specialist works

Mostly references to fashion and costume of specific periods/places.

• Fashion and Fancy (Q30073514):Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt's Paintings (Winkel, 2006) 17th century Dutch fashion, has glossary
• Prehistoric Textiles (Q30081010) (Barber, 1993)
• What Clothes Reveal (Q30106162) (Baumgarten, 2002) colonial America
• Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier (Q30120423) (Slatta, 1983) Google books
• The Art of Dress (Q30129561) (Ribeiro, 1995)
• Dressed to Rule (Q30129884) (Mansel, 2005)
• Dress in the Middle Ages (Q30475356) (Piponnier & Mane, English trans. 1997)
• The Costume of Scotland (Q32162806) (Dunbar, 1990 pb.)
• Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z (Q33103729) (Cleland, Davies, & Llewellyn-Jones, 2007) Google Books
• Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 (Q33093328) (Takeda et al., 2010)
• The Berg Companion to Fashion (Q47212148) (Steele, 2010) subscription required