The Best Fashion Books for Kids

Ella Sarah wants the pink polka-dot pants, the red-and-orange dress, and the yellow shoes — all at once, no substitutions.

Nancy considers plain a tragedy, and she has the boas, tiaras, and vocabulary to fix it.

A girl who was told she was plain grew up to balance a shoe on a hat and invent shocking pink.

The designer who sewed Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress spent a career being left off the label.

A young immigrant seamstress noticed the customers stores were ignoring, then dressed them.

The orphan who learned to sew in a convent and then talked the world out of its corsets.

Harbet’s hat is never the right hat, so he buys taller ones, fruitier ones, and one with a working nest.

Yasmin raids Mama’s closet for a fashion show, and then has to design her way out of the damage.

Mary restyles the whole nursery-rhyme playground, then learns that sequins do not slide well.

One shepherd, one uncooperative flock, and every step from shearing to sewing before winter arrives.

Loincloths, corsets, bloomers, and union suits, explained by a chicken with a pointer.

Zoey’s school drops its uniforms, so she starts sewing her own clothes and blogging the sketches.

A dry-goods merchant, a Nevada tailor, and the rivets that turned work pants into the world’s clothes.

A tailor’s daughter working as a housemaid in 1920s London starts a secret dressmaking business upstairs.

Frances gets one client, total creative freedom, and one condition: no one may know who wears the gowns.