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Costume

• Fashion Plate Collection - this collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the time
• Fashion-era - over 200 illustrated pages on fashions of the 19th and 20th centries
• V & A Stage Costume - the art and science of designing and making stage costumes
• Western costume history - collection of weblinks from the costumers manifesto webpage organised by period
• Truly Victorian - costume patterns from the 1840s to the 1890s
• Seams Old - extensive gallery of antique clothing, textiles and accessories collected in Australia; each picture has detailed notes re the garment and its provenance; costume patterns from the 1840s to the 1890s
• The Ladies' Treasury of Clothing and Fashion
• Revamp Vintage Clothing - contempory reproductions and fashion plates; especially useful instructions to recreate vintage hairstyles
• Drexel digital museum project, Drexel University - a searchable database of archival data and detailed graphics from the Drexel Historic Costume Collection
• Demode - women's clothing from 1750-1919 fashion - photographs of examples of women's clothing from the mid-18th century to the Edwardian era on display in museums around the world; some have very useful extra material
• Costume Museum of Canada - an extensive archival and photographic collection is a feature of this museum
• Museum of Costume, Bath
• Fashion Foto-date - a service that dates photographs by the fashions worn in them
• The Textile Museum - US based but non-Western collection
• History of Levi Strauss - look for 'history' under About Us; includes a history of denim
• All sewn up: millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume - this collection includes books from the first half of the twentieth century

Textiles

• Powerhouse Museum - electronic swatchbook
• Powerhouse Museum - lace study centre
• Sarah Lowengard's The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Entire manuscript available as an electronic book.
• Cornell University, College of Human Ecology: textiles and apparel - more about the departments and courses at the University; web links from this page to textile and costume museums etc.
• Barbara Ballantyne - research on Irish crochet lace and Australian needlework
• University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Costume collection - Hawaiian, Asian, Ethnic and Western collections (some images)
• University of Rhode Island: historic costume and textile collection - images and descriptions of selected artifacts from the collection are featured in the online catalogue; descriptions are based on student research papers
• Musee McCord Museum: the collection, costume and textiles, Montreal, Canada - Canadian costume and textiles
• Helen Louise Allen textile collection - digital close-ups of objects from the textile collection; patterns of the quilt collection
• Fashion Institute of Technology - Museum, New York - images and current exhibitions gallery
• Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH - American fashion and decorative arts; visual dictionary for textiles and costume
• Ohio State University Costume and Textiles Collection - images under exhibitions past and present
• Ravensgard costuming and textiles page - useful links to other related sites, resources, exhibitions and museums, libraries and organisations
• Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Canada - searchable online collection; recommend using advanced search
• The Textile Museum, Washington DC - images of Textiles of the month; collection features Western and non-Western artefacts with a strong collection of Asian textiles; textiles terminology reference list
• Hampshire County Council Museums Service - the collections, Hampshire, UK - this site includes fans and bags collection online from the 18th century to the present day
• National Museum of American history - clothing
• National Museum of American history - textiles
• Indianapolis Museum of Art textiles and art collection - general collection features Irish embroidery, Asian textiles as well as American and European textiles
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA - includes Boston textiles from 1870; Coptic and Andean textiles; European, Turkish, Indian, and Persian silk weavings; Indonesian batiks; and Middle Eastern rugs
• VADS - Visual Arts Data Service - Textile Collection
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK - collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day; other collections include accessories, jewellery, gloves and handbags; biographies on famous designers with images
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY - costume collection
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY - textile collection

Shoes

• A Century in Shoes - provides an overview of the history of women's shoe styles from 1900 to the 1990s; digital technology is exploited to provide all-angle views of shoes
• The Bata Shoe Museum - the site features brief illustrated essays on footwear with sections on North American Indians, the circumpolar region and the rest of the world; a history of Western shoe fashions; and footwear of famous people

Accessories

• Antique Spectacles & Other Vision Aids
• A history of opera gloves

Hair

• Hair History - Kathie Rothkop Hair Design - a gallery of photographs of changing hair fashions for the last century
• The Hair Archives: a website devoted to vintage hair fashion
• Bustle-era hairstyles
• 1930s hats and hairstyles

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