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Costumes
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design 
 A companion to an exhibit of costumes nominated for current Academy Awards and costumes from a selection of other movies from the same year. Includes photographs from the exhibit and brief information about the costumes and the designers. The archives section includes information and images of costumes back to 1997. From the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM). http://fidm.edu/resources/museum+galleries/exhibits/motion-picture-costume-design/2008/ Topics: History, Performing Arts, Recreation Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Bissonnette on Costume: A Visual Dictionary of Fashion
This site invites you to "enter the world of fashion and witness the change in silhouettes, accessories, lingerie and hairstyles from the 18th to the 20th century." It features annotated photographs of fashions, with an emphasis on female dress from Europe and the United States. Also includes information about male and children's fashions, and costumes of India, Greece, Japan, Turkey, China, and central Asia. Browsable. From a curator at the Kent State University Museum. http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Aug 25, 2004 The Costume Gallery
Browse the extensive collection of photos, research Viking footwear and medieval dress, study a guide to textiles, and participate in bulletin board discussions here. All facets of costume and its history from textiles through hairstyles are covered at this site, with commercial links to suppliers and designers. http://www.costumegallery.com/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Nov 23, 2002 Costume Page
A directory of thousands of costume and costuming-related links, for the benefit of those who make and/or study costumes. It includes sites for costumers, students, historical re-enactors, science fiction fans, dancers, theatrical costumers, and those interested in fashion, textile art, and costume history. Maintained by a hobbyist. http://www.costumepage.org Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Dec 24, 2004 The Costumer's Manifesto (Costumes.org)
Links to the history of costume and fashion, online theater classes, designers, Halloween costumes, military uniforms, movie costumes, sewing patterns, vintage clothing, supplies, and much more. Maintained by a costume designer and theater professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. http://www.costumes.org/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Holidays and Observances Individually, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Performing Arts Last updated Sep 14, 2006 Elizabethan Costuming Page
A searchable site that includes information, drawings, and photos about clothing for peasant, middle, and upper class men, women, and children from the Tudor and Elizabethan periods (sixteenth century) in English history. In addition there are extensive period illustrations, patterns for making everything from shoes to hats, information on Elizabethan fabrics and colors, and information makeup techniques and costume of the time outside of England. Also available is a bibliography and costuming sources and supplies. http://costume.dm.net/ Topics: Fashion, History, History By Place, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Jan 25, 2005 From Russia With Love: Costumes for the Ballets Russes, 1909-1933
"This exhibition displays the extraordinary designs made for the Russian Ballet between 1909 and 1933. It includes costumes, drawings, photographs, and theatre programs. Access these works through one of the exhibition's four themes: Exoticism, Romance and Fairytales, Russian Folklore and Modernism." Includes images of costumes designed by Léon Bakst and Henri Matisse. From the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Note: The puzzles may not work in all browsers. http://www.nga.gov.au/russia/ Topics: Dance, History, Holidays & Observances, Mysteries and More, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Jan 10, 2008 The Greater Bay San Francisco Area Costumers Guild
A site "where people with myriad interests [can] share their knowledge and love of costuming." The site features resources for costumers, including sources for and reviews of patterns, a shopping directory, and listings of activities and classes. Also includes pictorial reviews of selected topics (such as shoes of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s) and links to related sites. http://www.gbacg.org/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated May 4, 2005 The History of Costume
"For students who are studying the history of fashion and for costume designers." Contains images from a book of 500 full-color plates showing "historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century." Note: "The original book was published in German, so at times, the English translation [of the captions] is confusing." Maintained by a theater professor at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Dec 1, 2005 Institute of Draped Clothes (IDP)
This group is interested in "the research, study, preservation and promotion of draped clothing such as saris, belted plaids, Roman togas, sarongs, and other unstitched costumes found all over the world." The site features a "Web Library" of links to sites about topics such as draping styles, pareos, African costumes, and headdresses and turbans. Also includes a newsletter back to 1999. In English and French. Searchable. http://www.idcw.org.uk Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Jun 8, 2005 Religious Costume & Clothing Links at the Costumer's Manifesto
A compilation of links to dozens of sites about traditional religious apparel. "In this list many religions are grouped together by clothing style, not necessarily by philosophical affiliation. So, for example Lutherans and Anglicans are grouped with Catholics (since they use similar vestments) while Byzantine Catholics are grouped with Eastern Orthodox for the same reason." Maintained by a costume designer and theater professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/religious_costume.htm Topics: History, Holidays & Observances, Nonfiction by Genre, Performing Arts Last updated Apr 6, 2005 Sewing Resource Guide
This is mainly a directory of lightly annotated links to Web sites and topics that may be of interest to a sewer. A wide variety of topics are covered such as buttons, classes, costumes, fabrics, lace making, pattern software, patterns, quilting, sergers, television shows, vintage clothing, and much more. http://www.lilyabello.com/sewdir.htm Topics: Crafts, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Jul 14, 2000 |
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