Start by finding a topic that interests YOU!
Using the Visual Guides
The visual guides are designed to give ideas. Images are tied to museums, quality blogs and articles. These can help you brainstorm your research choices. Sign in to Pinterest is required either by registration there, a Facebook or Google account.
The adornment visual guides are broken into three sections
Body Image I Body Painting I
Body Modification I
Body Modification: Cosmetic Surgery I
Body Modification: Foot Binding I
Body Modification: Tattooing, Piercing &
Scarification I
Cosmetics I Costume I
Designers of Fashion I Footwear I
Gender I General Topics I Hair Accessories I
Hair before 1800 I Hair: 19th Century I
Hair: 1900-1930 I Hair: 1940s-1950s I
Hair: 1960s-1970s I Hair 1980s-1990s I
Hair 2000- I Hair: Africa I
Innovative Fashion I
Jewelry I Jewelry: Beads I
Keeping Up Appearances
(grooming, manicures, hygiene etc.) I
Perfume I Textiles I Weddings
Africa North of the Sahara I Africa: South of the Sahara I Asia: Eastern I Asia: Central & Southern I Asia: Western I European Folk Costume I Mexico, Central America & Caribbean I Native American I Native American: Northwest Tribes I Oceania I South America
Ancient Africa I Ancient Europe I Medieval I
Renaissance 14th-17th Century I 1700-1790 I
1790-1835 I 1835-1890 I 1890-1920 I
1920s I 1930s I 1940s I 1950s I 1960s I 1970s I
1980s I1990s I 2000-2010 I
If your subject is historical you might also check out the
Eras Visual Guides
Pre-history I Ancient 3600 BCE - 400 CE I
Middle Ages: 5th Century - 1700 I
1700-1860 I 1860-1900 I 1900-1930 I
1930s I 1940s I 1950s I 1960s I
1970s I 1980s I
2010-Current I
Body Adornment
ebook collections for Body Adornment
Using the John A. Brown Library
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Using Keywords for Successful Searching
Once you have decided on a topic, take some time to make a list of keywords that will help you find more information in databases, ebooks and our library catalog.
For added help turning your topic into a
research question and determining search
terms see our Research Topics page
Finding Articles and Ebooks
To find digital resources on Body Adornment visit the library home page
Use ProQuest to find articles from scholarly journals on your subject.
The Artstor database provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, and humanities. You will find it under Popular Databases More... and then choose Art
Use Ebook Central to find relevant ebooks and chapters; read online, search within the ebook, and highlight, take notes, bookmark pages stored on your bookshelf for you.
Citing Sources
John A. Brown Library Quick Guide to MLA Citations
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Finding physical books in the John A. Brown Library
The library catalog can be accessed from the Library Home Page. Below is a BROWSER'S GUIDE to book numbers in the library that might be most helpful for a body adornment topic. Subjects with an ebook link will take you to selected resources at e-book Central for that topic.
391 Body Adornment (comprehensive)
391.009 Costume & fashion of more than one time period
391.00901 Fashion to 499 A.D.
391.00902 Fashion 6th thru 16th centuries (medieval & renaissance)
391.00903 Comprehensive 16th century to present
391.009031 16th century fashion 391.009032 17th century fashion
391.009033 18th century fashion
391.009034 19th century fashion
391.00904 20th century fashion - comprehensive
391.009041 Fashion 1890-1920
391.009042 Fashion 1920-1929
391.009043 Fashion 1930-1939
391.009044 Fashion 1940-1949
391.009045 Fashion 1950-1959
391.009046 Fashion 1960-1969
391.009047 Fashion 1970-1979
391.009048 Fashion 1980-1989
391.009049 Fashion 1990-1999
391.009051 Fashion 2000-2019
391.01 Fashion design ebooks
391 Sociology and economics of adornment e-books
391.022 Royal fashion
391.024 Fashion for ordinary "common" people
391.0245 Second hand fashion
391.02411 Color in fashion
391.07 Costumes for theater & performance
391.0743 Costuming for tv & movies (more than one)
391.07432 Costuming for specific movie or tv show
391.07435 Cosplay & re-enactment
391.07437 Costume used for celebration (holidays, life events, carnival etc.)
391.09 Ethnic costume and fashion
391.094 Costume of Europe
391.0943 Costume of Germany and Eastern Europe
391.0952 Costume of eastern Asia (Japan, China etc.)
391.0954 Costume of southern Asia ( India, Nepal, Tibet etc.) e-book collection
391.0954 Costume of western Asia (Middle East) e-book collection
391.96 Costume of Africa
391.097 Native American costume & accessories
391.098 Costume of Latin America
391.099 Costume of Australia & Pacific Islands
391.1 Costume of men specifically
391.2 Costume of women specifically
391.23 Gender & sexuality in fashion
391.233 Cross dressing
391.41 Foot Binding
391.413 Footwear
391.42 Undergarments
391.423 Hosiery
391.426 Sleepwear and loungewear
391.434 Masks (not limited to one place)
391.434096 Masks of Africa
391.4340972 Masks of Mexico, Central America, South America & the Caribbean
391.434097 Native American Masks
391.44 Accessories - including canes, combs, eyeglasses, fans, flowers, handbags, muffs, parasols sunglasses
391.45 Buttons
391.476 Pants - trousers - jeans - etc.
391.48 Uniforms
391.5 Hair
391.5042 hair of the 1920s & 30s
391.507 Hair color
391.52 Body & facial hair
391.50939 Hair in Asian cultures
391.6 Beauty & Personal Appearance
391.6573 Teeth
391.606 Body image - include things about weight and size that have to do with beauty concepts
391.6069 biographies that deal with body image
391.63 Perfume
391.6306 Body painting and henna
391.6309 Cosmetics
391.65 Tattooing, scarification
391.67 Body modification - extreme beauty
391.672 Fingernails, manicures, etc.
391.7 Jewelry
391.701 Beads
391.70196 African beads
391.70197 Native American beads and beading
391.7027 Earrings
391.70954 Jewelry of India
391.7096 Jewelry of Africa
391.7097 Native American Jewelry
391.70994 Jewelry of Australia & Oceania
392.5097 Wedding customs
392.54 Wedding clothes
(UPPER FLOOR)
617.952 Cosmetic surgery
746 Textiles
746.09 Textiles - broad collections on folk art and textiles; world textiles
746.0948 Textiles of Scandinavia and Finland
746.0961 Textiles of Africa
746.0972 Textiles of Mexico and Central America
746.0978 Textiles of the western United States
746.098 Textiles of South America