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All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing, and Costume
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMillineryBooks
From the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, this group offers books from the early 20th century about millinery, costume, and dressmaking. Can be searched or browsed by publication.
The Costume Page
http://www.costumepage.org
Well-organized links to costume history, ethnic costumes, theatrical costume, and to sources of costume making supplies. Includes a Halloween section. Although this site is no longer being maintained (since 2009), it is included here for the material not available elsewhere.
The Costumer's Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org
An extensive blog about costuming. Includes advice, course projects, and views on issues in costuming.
Drexel Historic Costume Collection
https://drexel.edu/foxcollection/
Locate images of women's fashion from 1870 through the present from Drexel University's costume collection.
Fashion Encyclopedia
http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com
Information about designers and cultures. Searchable and browsable.
Fashion Era
www.fashion-era.com
Illustrations and essays on fashion from 1800 through today’s trends. Additional sections on body adornment, image planning and costume resources. This website has its own search engine to help you find exactly what you want.
Fashion Institute of Technology - Online Collection
https://www.fitnyc.edu/library/sparc/collections
350 objects from the collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. See also FIT's Fashion History Timeline.
Fashion Plate Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb
"This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times." Search or browse by keyword or category.
History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/TEXT_INDEX.HTML
Provides an index to worldwide fashion spanning from the ancient times to the late 19th century. Color illustrations are provided for each section.
La Couturière Parisienne - Costume and Fashion Site
http://www.marquise.de
Voluminous survey of costume in the Western World from 1400-1939 with descriptive and explanatory text, instructions for sewing, and over 700 illustrations from paintings, fashion catalogues, and journals. Links to other costume and fashion sites through a WebRing.
Museum of Fashion - Collections
https://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/collection
Portions of the museum's collections are available to view online.
Research Guides - FIT Library
http://fitnyc.libguides.com
A collection of bibliographies, news, and links prepared by librarians at the Fashion Institute of Technology Library.
VADS: The Textile Collection
https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/ST
From the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, this collection "illustrates the visual and tactile subtleties of textiles in a two-dimensional environment. Each image has been carefully created to describe the particular qualities of its subject - expressing the fold and drape of a textile; communicating the fibre, structure and finish of woven cloths; and illustrating pattern, repeat and scale in printed fabrics."
Vintage Sewing Patterns
http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Find and view 85,300 out-of-print patterns for men, women, and children, from the 1920s through the early 1990s. Search by decade, designer, or type of garment (from lingerie to maternity to suits to bodysuits and more. There is even a category for movie star's garments.
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