Costume Links



Here are some useful and interesting web sites. Apologies if any of them are out of commission. For more links, see http://delicious.com/melisant General Costume Pages The Costume Page (no longer updated, but has many links to costume resources, research, other costume pages, etc.) The Costumer's Manifesto Costume Gallery Milieux: The Costume Site (has many costume links) Computer Scenographics Research Library (has costume links) La Couturiere Parisienne Costume and Fashion Site (has a wonderful set of primary source pictures arranged by century) The History of Costume by Braun and Schneider (a 19th-century costume history book online) Bisonnette on Costume: A Visual Dictionary of Fashion Specific-Focus Costume Pages The Elizabethan Costuming Page (Mistress Drea's fabulous site, including a pattern generator for corsets and tons of great links to Elizabethan resources) Footwear of the Middle Ages The Renaissance Tailor Some Clothing of the Middle Ages (Marc Carlson's fabulous site on extant medieval clothing) Arador Armour Library Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage The Regency Fashion Page Artistic Dress (Victorian Dress Reform/Aesthetic Dress) The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion (Victorian/Edwardian) ERTE (all about the early 20th-century designer/artist) Paris Music Hall Collection (designs for costumes 1920-1938) Vintage Fashion Magazines and Patterns Godey's Lady's Book 1 Godey's Lady's Book 2 Harper's Bazar Magazine Vintage Pattern Lending Library Useful Images for Research Paintings of Vermeer English Actors at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (hand-colored photos of actors in costume) American Memory collections from the US Library of Congress (includes a collection of photos and daguerrotypes as well as movies, etc.) The Daguerrian Society Dscriptorium (images of and links to illuminated manuscripts) Sense and Sensibility's Vintage Image Gallery Vintage Family Photos NY Public Library Digital Collections Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits (a large collection of portraits, including some less common ones) Art Galleries online: Artcyclopedia Web Gallery of Art CGFA Virtual Art Museum National Portrait Gallery (UK) Olga's Gallery Costume Museums and Collections Museum of the City of New York Costume Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (has costumes and textiles collection) University of North Texas Fashion Collection The Goldstein Museum The Museum of Costume at Bath, England Los Angeles County Museum of Art Costume and Textile Collection The Bowes Museum Costume Museum of Canada Textile Museum of Canada The Costume Museum (Japan) The Bata Shoe Museum Smithsonian Costume Collection Connecticut Historical Society Cornell Costume Collection Kent State University Museum University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress The Fan Museum WWW Virtual Library--museums search engine Medieval and Renaissance Living History Society for Creative Anachronism Regia Anglorum's Wychurst Project Guedelon The Company of Saynte George