About

Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools

Pairing the trusted expertise of Fairchild Books—the world’s leading provider of fashion education resources—with ABC-CLIO’s dynamic interactive platform, Fairchild Books for Schools brings fashion learning to life.

We’ve carefully curated and adapted content from select Fairchild Books titles to meet today’s fashion standards and classroom needs. From essential skills and core business concepts to key vocabulary and career insights, everything students need is right here.

This collection draws from the following books:

  • A Guide to Fashion Sewing, 7th edition, Connie Amaden-Crawford
  • Apparel Design Through Patternmaking, Injoo Kim, Myoungok Kim, Zachary Hoh
  • Beginner's Guide to Sketching the Fashion Figure: Croquis to Design, Lisa Steinberg
  • Fashion by Design 2nd Edition, Janice Greenberg Ellinwood
  • Fitting & Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach To The Art Of Style Selection, Fitting, And Alteration 4th Edition, Judith Rasband, Elizabeth Liechty, Della Pottberg-Steineckert
  • Guide to Fashion Career Planning: Job Search, Resumes and Strategies for Success, V. Ann Paulins, Julie L. Hillery
  • In Fashion, Sheryl A. Farnan, Elaine Stone
  • Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers 3rd Edition, Julie Cole, Sharon Czachor
  • Silent Selling: Best Practices and Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising 6th Edition, Judy Bell
  • Survey of Historic Costume 7th Edition, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti
  • Textiles: Concepts and Principles, Fourth Edition, Virginia Hencken Elsasser, Julia Ridgway Sharp
  • The Art of Fashion Draping, 5th Edition, Connie Amaden-Crawford
  • The Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, and Marketing, Leslie Davis Burns, Kathy K. Mullet
  • The Dynamics of Fashion, Sixth Edition, Sheryl A. Farnan, Elaine Stone
  • The Fashion Industry and Its Careers, 5th Edition, Sheryl A. Farnan, Michelle M. Granger
  • Who’s Who In Fashion, Holly Price Alford
  • World of Fashion, Jay Diamond, Ellen Diamond

Database Content Selection and Curation

ABC-CLIO is an award-winning publisher of reference, contemporary thought, and professional development content, created to help students, educators,librarians, and general readers of all ages wrestle with complex challenges. Throughout our history, we have invested resources in the development of new content genres, giving our diverse customer and reader communities the opportunity to explore deep factual treatments of the topics that matter, and delivering the most current scholarship and perspectives on those topics.

Our experienced editorial staff compiles database content from a variety of sources, including ABC-CLIO’s award-winning books, recognized scholars and writers in various fields, educators, and professional development specialists. Our curriculum content includes Topic Essentials video presentations developed with the guidance of master teachers. Our master teachers are at the top of their fields, with decades of combined teaching experience. All content is aligned to state and national standards, including Common Core, American Association of School Librarians, and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework.

Some of the materials we present in our Commentaries and other curriculum pieces blend scholarly hypotheses with supporting evidence. They are designed to teach students the art of formulating informed theses and to stimulate discussion of the arguments presented. Our expert authors are asked to craft well-reasoned arguments from their particular points of view. As a result, these pieces can be challenging, even controversial. The opinions represented do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ABC-CLIO staff.

Our databases comprise hundreds of thousands of entries; each piece of content is reviewed by multiple editorial staff to ensure content is age-appropriate to the database it is in (Schools or Academic). In our database coverage, we strive to include the voices, stories, and experiences of a wide diversity of peoples, including the stories of those that have been historically underrepresented.

Objectivity and Review

Objectivity and balance are always of the utmost importance to our staff, both in writing pieces and editing work submitted by contributors. We are guided by our editorial boards and advisers, as well as our own editorial policies and fact-checking procedures. Recognizing that every person has inherent bias, we strive toward creating and curating content that is as factual and as free of bias as possible, and have included bias checks and balances as an essential part of our editorial review.

Content Warnings

As a reference publisher, ABC-CLIO aims to present impartial, scholar-driven content supplemented by full collections of primary sources in their original forms. These sources offer historical context and value in enhancing students' understanding of how modern ideas, beliefs, and societal structures are influenced by our past—including prejudices and biases. Primary sources, as fragments of history, often reflect attitudes and values of individuals in particular time periods. Acknowledging dehumanizing language, for example, can be an important part of understanding historical events.

Some of this content may be upsetting or disturbing to modern readers, but we have avoided censoring such terminology in order to both retain historical accuracy and to offer opportunities for students to make connections between past attitudes and ideas, and their roles in shaping many contemporary issues in American society.

We flag instances of harmful terminology and potentially disturbing images with content warnings and encourage teachers to set guidelines for approaching such content in the classroom, especially where material may be quoted or read out loud.

Technological Protection Measures

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Experienced editorial staff compile database content from a variety of sources, including books and products, scholars and writers in various academic fields, educators, and professional development specialists. When deciding what to add and update in the databases, we take into consideration and align to state and national curriculum standards, including Common Core, American Association of School Librarians, and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework.

ABC-CLIO offers both Schools (grades 7-12) and Academic versions of many of our databases. Each piece of content is reviewed by our experienced editorial staff to ensure content is age-appropriate to the database version that it best fits.

A bespoke technological solution has been created to manage the availability of content. Schools have the ability to restrict the availability of content that they may consider to be inappropriate.

Translations, Closed Captions, and Transcripts

Translations, closed captions, and transcripts are provided by a third-party service to improve accessibility and usage for all users. ABC-CLIO does not review all of the technology-generated content of translations, closed captions, or transcripts and they may contain errors. ABC-CLIO makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, timeliness or completeness of any information that appears, and expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability with respect to any errors or omissions.

Questions and Feedback

Drop us a line if you have any questions on the specific editorial policies of any of our Schools or Academic Databases at: customerservice@abc-clio.com.

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The Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools Team

Editorial
Judy Fay, Sr. Director, Digital
Julie Dunbar, Manager, Editorial Development
Nita Lang, Editorial Specialist
Jennifer Hutchinson, Editorial Specialist
Ellen Rasmussen, Sr. Media Editor
Tamara Johnson, Writer/Editor
Mary Bagne, Project Editor
Nicki Griffin, Curriculum Specialist

Technical
Susan Basch, Developer
Chris Martinich, Developer
Eelco Vrolijk, Principal Engineer
Neal Schaefer, Director, Product and Content Management Systems
Mark LaCommare, Manager, Information Technology and Video Production

Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools Advisors
Kendall Barry, Fairfax Academy
Teresa Chavis, Alexandria City High School

ABC-CLIO Database Advisors
Paul R. Bartrop, PhD, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University
Lee W. Eysturlid, PhD, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Trinidad Gonzales, MA, PhD, South Texas College
Kyle T. Mays, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Tarissa Spoonhunter, MA, PhD, High Plains American Indian Research Institute at University of Wyoming
John R. Vile, PhD, Middle Tennessee State University
Xiaojian Zhao, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Photo Credits: Home Page Carousel
Introduction to Fashion—KRie/Shutterstock.com
History of Fashion—The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Costume Institute Fashion Plates, Gift of Sally Victor
Design—Doctor Black/Shutterstock.com
Skills for Designers—South_agency/iStockphoto.com
Textiles—Aldo Pavan/Getty Images
The Fashion Industry—Sylvie Bouchard/Shutterstock.com
Marketing—SolStock/iStockphoto.com
Fashion in Society—Kevin Winter/iStockphoto.com
Ethics and Fashion—Infiks Jurnal/Dreamstime.com
Careers—Aaron Amat/Dreamstime.com