| Blondeen used the following sources in preparing Dovima's Biography: |
| Gross, Michael. "Model: The ugly business of beautiful women." New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1995. |
| Jackson, Lesley. "The New Look: Design in the Fifties." New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991. |
| Morris, Bernadine. "Dovima, a Regal Model of the 50's, is Dead at 63." The New York Times, May 5, 1990. |
| Swartz, Mimi. "The Couture Cinderella." Vanity Fair, June 1991. |
| Blondeen would like to thank: |
| Jay Weissberg for showing Blondeen how to use the modern library- and his encouragement. |
| Valerie Kennedy for the Vanity Fair article and her fabulousness. |
| The New York Public Library. |