Dress, the journal of the Costume Society of America, has been in publication since 1975 and represents the highest level of scholarship. The scope of the journal encompasses many diverse areas of study including dress in art, social history, anthropology, material culture, and museum studies. The journal also invites work on fundamental concerns such as theory, research methods, and analytical and interpretative papers that describe and place dress in cultural or historical context.
Areas of interest include:
Dress includes articles, book and exhibition reviews, letters to the editor, and short reports. The complete archive for Dress from Volume 1, 1975 is available online for institutional subscribers and CSA members through instructions that can be found on the members-only website.
Dress welcomes submissions of research articles, research reports, and visual essays.
Research Articles: This type of critical article represents original research with strong theses and conclusions and is approximately 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, including citations.
Research Reports: The shorter research reports focuses on a narrow topic, artifact, or archival collection and can be more descriptive, but still needs rigor in the methodology and presentation of the findings, as well as how those findings fit into dress study. Research Reports are approximately 3,000 to 6,000 words, including citations.
Visual Essays: The visual essay format is intended to create publication options for original creative contributions related to dress that push new boundaries or generate new knowledge or insights in the field. This format of submission must feature dress or costume used as a vehicle for original creative expression with 8-10 high quality photographs or illustrations (300 dpi) for which the author/artist owns copyright. The supporting text of up to 2,000 words (including citations) must articulate the aims, background, and context for the work, explain the formal decisions that guided the creation thereof, and articulate the knowledge generated by the project.
Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically, using a Word document file (not a pdf), double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman font. Authors must follow the formatting guidelines of the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. All pages should be numbered.
Electronic submissions should be sent to the Acting Principal Editor/Deputy Editor
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox at dress@costumesocietyamerica.com. Authors with questions for the editor are also welcomed to contact her by email.
No hard copy submissions will be accepted.
All submissions should include the following:
Criteria for Review of Research Articles and Reports:
Contributions will be assessed in a double-blind peer review based on the following criteria:
Criteria for Review of Visual Essays:
Contributions will be assessed in a double-blind peer review based on the following criteria:
More information regarding submission, including format, style, and language can be found on the Taylor & Francis website.
The journal also publishes book and exhibition reviews (1,000 to 1,500 words). Do not send unsolicited reviews. If you want to write a book review or offer a review copy of a book for consideration, contact the book review editor at bookreviews@costumesocietyamerica.com. If you want to write an exhibition review, contact the exhibition review editor at exhibitionreviews@costumesocietyamerica.com.
For other conferences and media reviews, contact the Principal Editor at dress@costumesocietyamerica.com.
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (Case Western Reserve University)
Nancy Janzig
Rob Schorman (Miami University, USA)
Dennita Sewell (Arizona State University)
Heather Marie Akou (Indiana University, USA)
Nazlı Alimen (Birmingham City University, UK)
Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Institute of American Indian Arts, USA)
Laura Camerlengo (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA)
Daniel James Cole (New York University, USA)
Carmen Keist (Bradley University, USA)
Abby Lillethun (Montclair State University, USA)
Pravina Shukla (Indiana University, USA)
Monica Sklar (University of Georgia, USA)
Regina Root (William and Mary, USA)
Christina Bates (Canadian Museum of History), Editor Emerita
Patricia Cunningham (Ohio State University, USA), Editor Emerita
Sally Helvenston Gray (Michigan State University, USA), Editor Emerita
Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA), Editor Emerita
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