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Fashion and Textiles

Find information on Fashion Design, Textiles, Fashion Business and Textile Technology.

Find books, e-books and chapters

Log in and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and book chapters.

  • Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.

  • Use OR to find any words or synonyms.

  • Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.

  • Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search: 

"fast fashion" AND (fabric OR textiles) AND sustainab* 

Browse the collection

Browse the Library shelves using these call numbers (shelf location numbers).

Fashion design

  • 391: Clothing 
  • 391.009: Costume and Fashion History 
  • 391.009: Australian Fashion History  
  • 391.1: Costumes : Men - 
  • 391.1: Mens clothing and dress  
  • 391.2: Costumes: Women 
  • 391.3: Costumes: Children  
  • 391.4: Accessories  
  • 391.413: Footwear Fashion 
  • 391.44: Handbags  
  • 646.2: Sewing 
  • 646.32 : Mens clothing and construction  
  • 646.4: Tailoring 
  • 685: Leather, Fur and related products  
  • 685.31: Boots : design and construction 
  • 685.3102: Footwear Design and Construction  
  • 745: Decorative Arts 
  • 746-746.9: Textiles  
  • 746.92: Fashion Design & Designers  
  • 746.92: Fashion Show  
  • 746.92024: Image Consultant  
  • 929.6: Tartans  

Fashion business

  • 658.834: Consumer behaviour   
  • 658.87: Retail marketing 
  • 659.15: Visual Merchandising 
  • 687: Clothing production    
  • 687: International Standards for clothing sizes  
  • 687.0688: Fashion merchandising    
  • 746.92068: Clothing trade, fashion merchandising

Sustainability and ethics

  • 338.47687 Ethical fashion 
  • 646.4 Remaking clothing
  • 746.92 Sustainable fashion/ Environmental aspects of fashion

 

How to find a book in the library

This video explains how to understand a call number to locate a book in the Library.

RMIT University Library (14 October 2021) ‘How to find a book in the Library’ [video], RMIT University Library, YouTube website, accessed 14 April 2023. https://youtu.be/38qiN_pyLUM

e-Books guide

See the Library’s e-Book guide for tips on using e-books.