I have read most of these books/sources or have had them recommended to me. Some of these books may be out of print, but you may be able to find them at your local library (try Interloan).
Web sources are denoted as (WEB), public domain books available online as (ONLINE BOOK) , while the rest are printed books. Those with previews available on Google books are (PREVIEW ON GOOGLE BOOKS).
More sources will be added as time goes by. Please let me know if you have a recommended source!
ASIA / WORLD
- Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures edited by Alf Hiltebeitel, Barbara D. Miller
- Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History edited by Victoria Sherrow
CHINA
- 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes text by Zhou Xun and Gao Chunming (1987)
- Chinese Clothing by Hua Mei, English text translated by Yu Hong & Zhang Lei (2004)
- Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Costume Accessories/清代服飾展覽圖錄 published by Guo Li Gu Gong Bo Wu Yuan (1986) [English+Chinese, only covers Qing Dynasty]
- China Chic: East Meets West by Valerie Steele and John S. Major (1999) (PREVIEW ON GOOGLE BOOKS)
- The End of the Queue: Hair as Symbol in Chinese History by Michael R. Godley (WEB)
INDIA
- The Costumes and Textiles of India by J.B. Bhushan (1958)
JAPAN
- Kimono: Fashioning Culture by Liza Crihfield Dalby (1993)
- Japanese Costume : And the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition by Helen Benton Minnich (1986)
- Tales of Old Japan by Baron Algernon Bertam Freeman-Mitford (1871) (ONLINE BOOK)
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris (1991)
- The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris (1964)
- Japanese Costume: History and Tradition by Alan Kennedy (1990)
- Taisho Chic by by Kendall H. Brown, Sharon A. Minichiello, Sharon Minichiello (2002)
KOREA
- Rapt in colour : Korean textiles and costumes of the Chosŏn dynasty by Claire Roberts and Huh Dong-hwa (1998)
- Norigae : splendor of the Korean Costume by Lee Kyung Ja ; translated by Lee Jean Young (2005)
PHILIPPINES
- Boxer Codex Manuscript (1595) (WEB)
THAILAND / SIAM
- Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin-China by John Crawfurd (1830) (ONLINE BOOK)
WESTERN WORLD
- The Chronicle of Western Fashion by John Peacock (1991)
- The Mode in Costume: A Historical Survey with 202 Plates by R. Turner Wilcox (2008)
- The Mode in Footwear: A Historical Survey with 53 Plates by R. Turner Wilcox (2008)
Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe by Jose Blanco, Mary D. Doering, Patricia Hunt-Hurst, and Heather Vaughan Lee (2015)
VIETNAM
- Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin-China by John Crawfurd (1830) (ONLINE BOOK)
- Ngan Nam Ao Mu (A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes) by Tran Quang Duc (2013)
- Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin (Studies on Southeast Asia) edited by Olga Dror and K.W. Taylor (2006)