Clothing and Costumes Resource List

Sheila Jones, Fashion Design Technology

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History of Clothing and Costuming

The History of Clothing: How Did Specific Items of Clothing Develop?
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blclothing.htm

The Costume Page
Costuming Resources Online
The Study of Costume and Costume History
http://members.aol.com/nebula5/tcpinfo2.html
http://users.aol.com/nebula5/tcpinfo2.html

THE HISTORY OF COSTUME - TEXT INDEX #1
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/TEXT_INDEX.HTML
By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880

A Brief History of Fashion
http://alpha.furman.edu/~kgossman/history/
This site was developed and intended to be only an introduction to the history of western fashion. It was conceived as a source for answering basic questions from students, researchers from other fields, new students of costume design & history and those merely intrigued by the history of dress.

Anglo-Saxon Clothing
http://www.angelcynn.org.uk/

Historical Boy's Clothing
http://histclo.hispeed.com/hist/hist.html

The Age of Invention - History of the Textile Industry
http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/textile.htm

History of Kimonos
http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual/kimono/history.html

Vintage Clothing
http://www.coololdstuff.com/showSite45.html

Vintage Clothing: 1940s: History and Information
http://www.coololdstuff.com/showSite29.html

18th Century Clothing - Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/History/clothing/

Reconstructing History - Patterns
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.html

Clothing from Various Eras
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48452

Army Clothing History
http://www.qmfound.com/army_clothing_history.htm

American Social and Cultural History
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/start.htm

Clothing: BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/c/clothing.htm

ANCIENT CLOTHING
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/clothing/index.htm

Clothing in Africa
http://africastyles.com/blackhistory/history_clothing.html

Native American Culture: Clothing
http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/clothes.htm

Costumes & Clothing:Costumes Megasites
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/costumhc.html

Aztec Dress
http://www.angelfire.com/az/atid410/

American Women's History: A Research Guide: Clothing and Fashion
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-clothing.html

A Glimpse from the Past: Native German Clothing
http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa073100a.htm

History of Japanese Clothing
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/garb/Garb.html
This site serves two purposes. The first is to provide as detailed an overview as possible on the history of Japanese clothing. The second purpose is to provide readers with the material to allow them to recreate the items of clothing and accessories.

Pilgrim Clothing
http://www.sail1620.org/discover_feature_pilgrim_clothing.shtml

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Updated last - 11 March 2004