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Fashion Resources: Clothing & Costume History
This union represents costume designers and illustrators working in the film and television industry. The website includes a membership directory, a gallery with photographs and drawings of members’ work, and information about awards and events. Visitors can click on the CDG Magazine link to view PDFs of The Costume Designer, the organization's quarterly magazine.
The CSA is a scholarly organization that “advances the global understanding of all aspects of dress and appearance.” The society publishes the journal Dress. Visitors will find information about job openings, grants and awards. A list of members provides links to a number of historic clothing related services.
This webpage contains links to photographs of real articles of women's clothing dating from 1600 to 1919 housed in a number of museums around the world. Viewers can browse by date and then clothing type.
This is a digital collection of over 400 fashion plates dating 1806-1914. The collection is organized into seven periods from Empire to Edwardian.
Fashion-Era is a link site devoted to analyzing “two centuries of women's costume history.” It is topically organized by time period, clothing type and subject matter.
Fashionable History is a online portal to resources for the study and teaching of fashion history. It includes links to scholarly journals, archives, libraries and museums, academic programs and bibliographies of scholarship and primary resources related to costume history.
This website provides highlights from Godey's Lady's Book from 1855 to 1858 and three complete issues of Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1855.
This website makes available the contents of the January, February, March, April and November, 1850 Godey’s Lady’s Book online which includes period fashion illustrations.
Visitors may search this visual dictionary of costume history geographically, by time period or by subject in order to access photographs, historic illustrations and images of objects from the KSU Museum collection.
The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is housed at the University of Urbana-Champaign. It consists of over 5000 pieces including costume and set designs. The collection documents 150 productions of Shakespeare and modern classics dating from 1932 to 1976, staged in England and the United States. The collection, most of it digitized, can be searched by play title, theater name, actor and director names, as well as medium.
The NYPL’s Digital Gallery has digitized a number of costume-related publication from the late 19th and early 20th century including “historical surveys as well as manufacturers' booklets and sample swatch catalogs.”
Subscription is required to access many parts of this website. This website offers some free articles on fashion history through its “Research Library” link.
This links site is broadly divided by topic and includes links to reference works and museums, costume history, historic topics and ethnic and folk costumes.
The Costume Society publishes the Costume Society Journal. The site provides information about the society’s scholarships and awards and links to UK museums and associated costume societies.
This is a topically-organized links site. Topics include costume history (arranged by time period), costume designs and designers, ethnic dress (divided geographically), museums, movie costumes, patterns, vintage clothing and costume suppliers. The costume history section is extensive and includes visual timelines.
This website provides digital images of costume plates from the book, The History of Costume (Zur Geschichte der Kostume). Individual plates were printed between 1861 and 1880 and were eventually bound together in book form. These images illustrate clothing from antiquity through the late 19th century.
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