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Costume

Volume 46 (2012), 2 issues per year

Print ISSN: 0590-8876
Online ISSN: 1749-6306

Costume is a scholarly, refereed publication presenting current research into contemporary and historic dress. The journal publishes articles from a broad chronological period and with a worldwide remit; it maintains a balance between practice and theory and concentrates on the social significance of dress. The journal also includes  reviews and listings of new books, journal articles and exhibitions. 

Costume is a dress studies journal published on behalf of the Costume Society. It is now edited by Penelope Byrde and Verity Wilson with Christine Stevens as Reviews Editor. The team’s complementary expertise and experience as curators, writers and lecturers ensure a wide network of contacts throughout the diverse world of dress and textile studies. We are pleased to announce that from 2012 there will be two issues a year.

Articles are welcomed from both established researchers and those new to the field. Papers published in Costume are sent out for peer review to ensure that they are of a high standard and make an original contribution to dress studies.

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Notice of digitization of back issues of Costume


Costume now 2 issues per year!
As of 2012, Costume will increase to 2 issues a year.


SPECIAL ISSUE for 2012:  This Sporting Life: Dress in Sport, guest edited by John Hughson and Dr Fiona Skillen at the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire.


Digitization of back issues of Folk Life
Readers of Costume may be interested to hear about a new project to make back issues of Folk Life available online. Find out more about the retrodigitization project.


Studies in the History of Costume & Textiles e-journal bundle – 10% discount for institutions
Get the best value for money for your library by subscribing to all three Maney journals within this subject area:

     •  Costume
     •  Dress
     •  Textile History

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