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Fashion Resources: Clothing & Costume HistoryAbout.com, Women's Fashion, Fashion History
This website is a links site to different aspects of fashion history, arranged topically and by date.
Costume Designers Guild
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.
Costume Society of America
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.
Demode: Real Women's Clothing, 1600-1919
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.
Fashion Plate Collection, University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections
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
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: Scholarly Study on the History of Fashion
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.
Godey's Lady's Book
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.
Godey's Lady's Book Online
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.
Kent State University Museum, Bissonnette on Costume: A Visual Dictionary of Costume
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.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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.”
The Costume Gallery
Subscription is required to access many parts of this website. This website offers some free articles on fashion history through its “Research Library” link.
The Costume Page
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 (UK)
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.
The Costumer's Manifesto
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.
The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider
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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