Costume Research areas online:

Museums:

This is your best resource, as a museum provides what I call primary research items, either actual clothing or paintings/artifacts from the time period you are researching. No other research, even online, provides what seeing the actual garment or painting provides.

Many museums have one day a week that they are free of charge.

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• The Battlestar Galactica Museum of Costume
• The Bernberg Museum of Costume, Johannesburg, South Africa
• A long list of British Museums, some featuring costumes/textiles. And yes, I agree, there seem to be a preponderance of museums in England
• Candian Costume Museum
• Canadian Museum of Costume
• The Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Division

  - specializing in 19th century

• Museum of the City of New York
• The Museum of Costume
• The Museum of Costume and Assembly
• The Costume Image Database at Columbia College

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• The Goldstein, A museum of Design
• Museum of Greek Costume
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  -they also have a great opera company!

• Forney Transportation Museum
• The Fortress of Louisburg Collection

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• The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

  -this museum really is the standard by which all others pale. They usually publish very lavish books of all exhibits.

  -this links you to the Versace exhibit not too long ago.

• Visitor's Guide to Japanese Museums

  Japan has the largest collection of Western Costume in the world.

• The Museum of Lace and Costume

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• The Manor House Museum of Textile and Costume
• The Musee McCord
• Costume and Fashion Museum, Napoleonic
• The Costume Museum of Nottingham

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• The Paris Music Hall Collection
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Russian Folk Costume Exhibit
• Shambellie House of Costume
• Slovenian Museum of Theater, Costume Design page

  I wouldn't want to be the cutter on this show, although the renderings are fascinating to look at!

• The Star Wars Museum

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• The Museum for Textiles
• Wygston's House Museum of Costume

Costume Research Resources By Item:

• Threads Magazine

  - because no matter how much experience I have, I still have to look things up. A good resource.

• The Underwear Home Page
• Worth & Worth Hats
• Chain Mail & Armor Library

  - this site is amazing!

• The Arms & Armor Index

  a VERY LARGE index of sites and sources.

• Chain Mail & Armor

  - see my Macbeth photos for chain mail and armor in theatrical setting.

• Military Uniforms in the New York Public Library Collection

Costume Pictures:

Crusades Costumes and Period Info

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Costume Rental Resources (Theatrical only, no Halloween)

• The Guthrie Theatre

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Online Pages of Costume Interest:

• International Costumers' Guild
• Costume Society of America
• German Military Helmets
• Victoriana

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Costume Reference Books

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Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria

Esther H. Schor, published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994. ISBN: 069103396X (acid-free paper)

A Book of Costume/

Milia Davenport

A CENTURY OF COSTUME: 1883-1983. Brenda Buller Focht and H. V. Moses. 1983. ISBN 0-935661-09-3. Paper, 66 pp., 3 color plates, 36.

Corsets and Crinolines/

Norah Waugh

Costume Design:

Techniques of the Modern Masters/

Lynn Pecktal

Costume History and Style, 1/e. Douglas A. Russell, Stanford University. Copyright 1983 * 576 pp. * Cloth * ISBN: 0-13-181214-9

The Costume Designer's Handbook/

Liz Covey, Rosemary Ingraham

The Costumer's Handbook/

ibid.

Costume in the Theatre/

James Laver

The Cut of Men's Clothes/

Norah Waugh

The Cut of Women's Clothes/

Norah Waugh

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Dance : a very social history /

by Carol McD. Wallace ... . New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Rizzoli, c1986. 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Dec. 17, 1986 through Sept.6, 1987.

Draping for Fashion Design/

Jaffee/Relis

Dress from three centuries : Wadsworth Atheneum /

compiled and with an introd. by J. Herbert Callister. Hartford, : Wadsworth Atheneum, c1976. 86 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. sitske a husitske. Bibliography: p. 71-72

Dressed to impress, 1840-1914 /

Christina Walkley. London : B.T. Batsford, 1989. 120 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.

Dressing the part; a history of costume for the theatre.

New York, F. S. Crofts & Co., 1938. xii p., 1 ., 397 p. illus. 28 cm. Bibliography: p. 373-383.

Eighteenth Century Costumes at Williamsburg/

From the Neck Up/

Denise Dreher

Grading Techiniques for Modern Design/

Price & Zamkoff

The Golden Legend, Inc.

-sellers of books on costume/fashion

A History of Costume/

Carl Kohler

History of Costume/

Blanche Payne

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In the presence of the dragon throne : Ch'ing dynasty costume(1644-1911) in the Royal Ontario Museum /

by John E. Vollmer. Toronto : Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 88 p. : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 21 cm. Includes bibliography.

Liturgical Vesture: Its Origins and Development

Pocknee, Cyril Westminster, Maryland (UK): The Canterbury Press, 1961.

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The Magic Garment

Principles of Costume Design/

Rebecca Cunningham

Medieval costume, armour and weapons, 1350-1450.

Selected and illustrated by Eduard Wagner. Text by Zoroslava Drobna & Jan Durdik. Translated by Jean Layton. London, P. Hamlyn <1962, c1958> , 2 p. <383> plates (part col.) 35 cm. Translation of Kroje, zbroj a zbrane doby predhu

The Mode in Costume/

R. Turner Wilcox

Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde, d'apres des documents and authentiques et les voyages des plus recents;

publie par Auguste Wahlen ... Bruxelles, Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-44. 4 v. col. plates. 27 cm. [I] Asie. 1843.--[II] Afrique-Amerique. 1844.--[III] Europe. 1844.--[IV] Oceanie. 1843.

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Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments

Mayer-Thurman, Christa. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975.

T-Z

Textile Art in the Church Ireland

Marion Nashville: Abingdon Press 1971

Tarquin Books, U.K.

The story of caps and gowns,

by Helen Walters. Chicago, New York, E. R. Moore Company, 1939. 1 p. ., 14 p. illus., col. double pl. 25 cm.

The Timetables of History

A horizontal linkage of people and events/

Twenty Thousand Years of Fashion/

Francois Boucher

Victorian and Edwardian Fashion A Photographic Survey/

Alison Gernsheim

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