Recommended Reading:

Callan, Georgina O’Hara, The Encyclopedia of Fashion
(H.N. Abrams, 1986)
391.0032 O

Dickerson, Kitty G., Inside the Fashion Business
(Prentice Hall, 2003)
338.4768 D

Milbank, Caroline Rennolds, New York Fashion: The Evolution of American Style
(Abrams, 1989)
391.0097 M

Clayton, Virginia Tuttle, ed. Drawing on America’s Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
(National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002)
745.0973 C

Hornung, Clarence Pearson, Treasury of American Design: A Pictorial Survey of Popular Folk Arts
(H.N. Abrams, 1972)
740H816T

 A Dress of Cream Colored Brocade Silk Worn Between1770-80
Ruggiero Pierotti (dates unknown)
New York, NY; circa 1937
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 11 ½”
Original garment courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
Collection of the Queens Library on long term loan from the U.S. General Services Administration
 
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