""Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates students in technical programs general readers."—Choice

"Any library with patrons interested in these topics will find this set a valuable set to have."—ARBAonline

"The work is an expertly produced reference resource that will enhance collections supporting theater and apparel studies as well as programs in the humanities and social-science disciplines. Highly recommended. All libraries. All levels."—Choice

"[T]he scope of materials covered is indeed impressive and more than suitable for quick reference. . . ." ­VERDICT

For institutional fashion departments and libraries with interested patrons."—Library Journal

“This book is stunning and approaches fashion like art, music and literature: rich with its own history. Though most fashion followers (or not) are almost always interested in newness, "Fashion" also reminds us of the past with stories such as Balenciaga examining the form of medieval religious vestments or Mick Jagger channeling severe Beau Brummell elegance.” - San Antonio Express-News. Quintanilla, Michael. Dec. 13, 2012 “Gifts Page-turners for fashionistas”

"This pretty history of costume and couture wears its Smithsonian connections with pride - the scholarly approach to humanity's dress sense over 3,000 years connects clothing's practicality with fashion's ostentation, and the smartly annotated illustrations ground outlandish catwalk displays in a longer, deeper tradition of modish garb and gear.” - Toronto Globe and Mail. Dec. 7, 2012, “Snakes, hobbits and puppies: A holiday guide to illustrated books”

“Here are my favorite top 10 "fashion" books to give (and receive) this holiday season: 1. "Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style" (DK Publishing, $50) This is a must-have for the fashion history buff - a lavishly illustrated guide to more than 3,000 years of shifting trends and innovative developments in the world of clothing. You won't want to stash this one away on a shelf you'll want it front and center on your coffee table.- Creators Syndicate. Mosley, Sharon. Nov. 26, 2012. “Read All About It: Top 10 Fashion Book Gift Guide”

“Containing everything you need to know about changing fashion and style, this beautiful book catalogs 3,000 years of fashion evolution. With stunning visual clarity, attention to detail, and information on icons from Marie Antoinette to Alexander McQueen, "Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style" offers an invaluable overview of the history of fashion and costume.” - Marketwire. Nov. 22, 2012. “Santa's Handy Hints For Everyone on Your List”

“For anyone with a casual interest in clothing, a browse through its 480 pages will give a lesson how fashion affected human history. For experts, it can be used as a reference book.”- McClatchy Washington Bureau. Wells, Tish. Nov. 13, 2012. “A lesson on how fashion affected human history”

“Not simply seeking raise up and insert historical women into an existing canon of artists, most of the essays aim instead to enlarge and even redefine our understanding of cultural production and its location. Birnbaum and Novakov’s interdisciplinary approach pushes art historians to consider the larger category of material culture, and I doing so provide a welcome addition to the existing scholarship on women artists in the interwar period.”--Women’s Art Journal. Buller, Rachel Epp. Summer 2010.

"The essay on Elizabeth Ginno’s pictures (etchings and sketches) of ‘people under Hitler’s thumb’ (p. 196) for a California audience advances discussions of costume and its relationship to identity and meaning.” --Revue d’art Canadienne (Official publication of the Universities Art Association of Canada). Helland, Janice. 34, no. 2 (2009).

“[The book} offers an important and at times stimulating contribution to both gender and cultural studies assessing the interwar period.” “Vaughan's essay . . . carefully champion[s] positive notions of knowledge transfer emulation and adoption by moving away from Post-colonial readings and suggest how women used works to question national boundaries as well as their own role as creators and dominant working conditions.”-- Oxford Art Journal. 32.3 2009. Smith, Camilla. “Women’s Contributions to Modernism: Discover, Recover, or Revise?”

"Another work that will be useful to a wide range of readers from public library patrons to high school students to college undergraduates. As such, it is also another one of those works that is equally suitable for circulating collections." --Against the Grain, January 25, 2010.

"Very intoxicating....a perfect reference source for high school, public, and academic libraries." --Reference & User Services Quarterly, December 21, 2009.

“This guide to American clothing will provide audiences in high school, public and academic libraries with a unique perspective on American social history." --Lawrence Looks at Books, December 1, 2009.

“This set is useful for the background information it gives on matters related to clothing and dress. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates, two-year technical program students, and general readers." --Choice, September 1, 2009.

"This set surveys the impact of American social, cultural, and economic life on mainstream clothing and the fashion industry. Its chronological and thematic arrangement encourages browsing rather than quick consultation. ...the encyclopedia's placement of fashion within its social and historical context will be interesting to many readers, including theater students and others doing costume research."--Booklist, May 15, 2009.