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Textile Journals at the TCU Library

These publications are available in either print form, electronic form or both.

Academic / Scholarly

  • Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
  • Costume
  • Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
  • Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal
  • Fashion Practice
  • Fashion Theory
  • FIBER (open access)
  • International Journal of Clothing Science & Technology
  • International Journal of Consumer Studies
  • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
  • Journal of Fashion Marketing & Management
  • Journal of Advertising
  • Journal of American culture
  • Journal of Consumer Research
  • Textile History
  • Textile Research Journal

Trade Publications

  • Apparel (formerly Bobbin)
  • Advertising Age (newspaper)
  • Adweek (formerly Brandweek)
  • Design Week
  • Display and Design Ideas – DDI
  • Drapers
  • Fashion Wire Daily
  • Footwear News
  • Hollywood Reporter
  • JCK (Jewelers Circular Keystone)
  • Ornament
  • Marketing
  • Marketing Magazine
  • National Jeweler
  • Retail Merchandiser
  • SGB (Sporting Goods Buyer)
  • WGSN + Stylesight
    Note: Stylesight is a subscription-based online portal for professionals in the fashion and design trade. WGSN + Stylesight contains fashion information to help fashion professionals (and students) anticipate and analyze the current marketplace. The majority of reports and articles within the database are created by the sites editorial team. WGSN + Stylesight is available as a standalone database in the library database list.
  • Surface Design Journal
  • Textile World
  • Threads
  • Wearables
  • WWD

Consumer Publications

  • Allure
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Elle
  • Esquire
  • Glamour
  • GQ
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • InStyle
  • Lucky
  • Mademoiselle
  • Marie Claire
  • Selvedge
  • Seventeen
  • Surface: the substance of style
  • Teen Vogue
  • Vanity Fair
  • Vogue -- Available as a standalone publication database in the library database list.

Article Databases for keyword and subject searching

  • Business Source Complete
  • WWD Online
  • OmniFile
  • DAAI
  • Textile Technology Index
  • Business and Company Resource Center
  • Factiva
  • FrogScholar
  • IBIS World

Example Search Topics

  • textile industry
  • textile fabrics
  • product lines
  • textured woven fabrics
  • household linens
  • textile design

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