Selected Works
- Gothic: Dark Glamour, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 00300136943 / 9780300136944 / 0-300-13694-3.
- Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion (editor in chief), Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, ISBN 0-684-31451-7.
- Fashion, Italian style, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-300-10014-0.
- The Fan: Fashion and Femininity Unfolded, Rizzoli International Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-8478-2446-2.
- The Red Dress, Rizzoli International Publications, 2001, ISBN 0-8478-2392-X.
- The Corset: a cultural history, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-09071-4.
- Shoes: a lexicon of style, Rizzoli International Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-8478-2166-8.
- China chic : East meets West (with John S. Major), Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07930-3.
- Bags: a lexicon of style (with Laird Borrelli), Scriptum Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-902686-04-7.
- Fifty years of fashion: new look to now, Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-300-07132-9.
- Fetish: fashion, sex, and power, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-509044-6.
- Women of fashion: twentieth-century designers, Rizzoli International Publications, 1991, ISBN 0-8478-1394-0.
- Men and women: dressing the part (editor, with Claudia Brush Kidwell), Smithsonian, 1989, ISBN 0-87474-559-4.
- Paris fashion: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-504465-7.
- Fashion and eroticism: ideals of feminine beauty from the Victorian era to the Jazz Age, Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-19-503530-5.
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