Books
2022 Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture, Bloomsbury Academic
100,000-word illustrated monograph, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/westernwear-9781350147676/
Refereed Journal Articles
2021 “Cattle Branding to Corporate Branding: Denim Trademark Design,” Journal of Design History 34, No. 2. (March 2021): 116-128. doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab007
2018 “Cone Mills Denim: An Investigation into Fabrication, Tradition, and Quality,” Fashion Theory 23, No. 4-5 (Jan. 2018): 515-530. doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2017.1420540
Exhibition Catalogs
2023 Crafting Denim. Center for Craft
2022 “Westernwear: Complicating an American Iconography,” in Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, edited by Michelle Finamore. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2022.
2010 Four designer biographies in Knoll Textiles, 1945 – 2010, edited by Earl Martin. Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, 2010.
Book Chapters
2014 Six essays in The WORN Archive: A Fashion Journal about the Art, Ideas, and History of What We Wear, edited by Serah-Marie McMahon. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2014.“Devil with the Blue Jeans On,” 102 – 107; “Exhibitionist: Fashion in the World of Museums,” 122 – 129; “Down the Button Hole,” 159 – 163; “The Revolution Will Be Plasticized,” 164 – 171; “Low Vamps and Peep Toes,” 172 – 175; “The Elusive Mr. Frederick: Searching for the Story behind Hollywood’s Naughtiest Lingerie Label,” 226 – 231. Reviewed by The New Inquiry, Publishers Weekly, NPR, and Hyperallergic
2009 “For Every Tatter in its Mortal Dress: Costume and Character in No Country for Old Men,” in No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film, edited by Lynnea Chapman King, Rick Wallach, and James Welsh. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Oral History Interviews
2009 “Interview with activist artist Allyson Mitchell,” Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art & Design Oral History Project: https://bgccraftartdesign.org/items/show/13
Exhibition Reviews
2018 “The Secret Life of Textiles: Synthetic Materials,” Textile History 49, No. 1: 116-119.
2016 “Denim: Fashion’s Frontier,” Journal of Design History, 29, No. 3: 307-309.
2014 “Tattered and Torn: On the Road to Deaccession,” Fashion Theory 18, No. 1: 97-102.
2012“Festival Review: Fashion in Film: Birds of Paradise,” Fashion Theory 16, No. 3: 377-382.
