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About Berg Fashion Library Online

Access to information and images about world dress and fashion.
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Key features

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The Berg Fashion Library online is a unique online resource that provides content and images on fashion and dress studies. Key content includes:

  • The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion;
  • Berg fashion e-books and e-journals with regular updates;
  • An extensive color image bank: including images from the Victoria & Albert Museum plus the print encyclopedia;
  • Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion;
  • Search functionality which allows you to refine by place, period, themes and textiles.

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Berg Fashion Library covers all regions of the world, with content from pre-history to the present day. Students and researchers in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of insights into people and cultures all over the world. It is updated at least three times a year to keep up with the changes in fashion.