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- Crane, Diana. Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- de Marly, Diana. Working Dress: A History of Occupational Dress. London: B. T. Batsford, 1986.
- Farrell-Beck, Jane. "Lifeblood of the Business: Fitters in American Foundations Departments, 1910s-1950s," Textile History (2003): 1–20.
- Fehr, Barbara. Yankee Denim Dandies. Blue Earth, Minn: Piper Publishers, 1974.
- Harris, Jonathan M ., Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven J. Schechter. The Homefront America During World War II. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984.
- Hartmann, Susan M . The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.
- Hemken, Ann. The Development and Use of Bib Overalls in the United States, 1856–1945. Master's thesis, Iowa State University, 1993.
- Henry, Sondra, and Emily Taitz. Everyone Wears His Name: A Biography of Levi Strauss. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1990.
- Kennedy, David M . Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Kidwell, Claudia, and Margaret C. Christman. Suiting Everyone
- The Democratization of Clothing in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.
- Lansdell, Avril. Occupational Costume and Working Clothes, 1776–1976. Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1977.
- Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: HarperCollins/ Basic Books, 1994.
- Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
- Ossian, Lisa Lynn . The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1940–1945. Ph.D. diss., Iowa State University, 1998.
- Severa, Joan L . Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans & Fashion, 1840–1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1995.
- Steele, Evelyn. Wartime Opportunities for Women. New York: E. R Dutton, 1943.
- Steele, Valerie. "Dressing for Work" in Men and Women: Dressing the Part, edited by Claudia Brush Kidwell and Valerie Steele. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
- Suarèz, J. C., and Susan Osborn. Real Clothes. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
- The American Workers' Fact Book. Washington, D. C.: United States Department of Labor, 1956.
- Tucker, Barbara M . "Agricultural Workers in World War II: The Reserve Army of Children, Black Americans, and Jamaicans." Agricultural History 68, no.1 (1994): 54–73.