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"Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but...
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Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book, Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, thrift-shop like a pro, or dye, tailor, and reinvent clothing you already have--this book has all the know-how you'll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers...
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Introduces the types of tools that can be useful in sewing, including fabrics and patterns, presents some prominent sewing techniques, including stitches, decorative styles, collars and fasteners, and introduces a variety of sewing projects designed to employ these tools and techniques.
6) Fashion
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Explores fashion trends and influencers of the present day, and highlights throwback fashion, sustainable fashion, androgynous fashion, and plus-size fashion. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
10) Clothes
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Presents a bilingual book for young children that features color photographs of clothing labeled in English and Arabic.
11) Clothes =: Dhar
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Presents a bilingual book for young children that features color photographs of clothing labeled in English and Somali.
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Bonnie wants the perfect first-day-of-school outfit, but everything in her wardrobe is too big or too small or worn out, so with the help of her family, Bonnie learns to use maker techniques like embroidery, knitting, and natural dyes to make her old clothes look new and original.
13) Branded
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Ian is too busy pursuing his passion for social justice to be concerned about the issue of new school uniforms until he realizes the two issues might be related.
14) The little black dress and zoot suits: depression and wartime fashions from the 1930s to the 1950s
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Profiles American fashion between the 1930s and 1950s, highlighting the trends that were most popular during these years. Discusses how political and societal issues of the era influenced clothing styles and manufacturing and features black-and-white photographs throughout.
18) Cinderella
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Cinderella is so busy cleaning and fixing things that she runs out of time to get ready for the ball with her lazy stepsisters. But then her Fairy Godmother shows up to help the aspiring interior designer and Clementine go to the party.