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History
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "Power Dressing": Designers for the 1970s/1980s Career Woman 
 This online exhibit traces the development of the fashions for women executives and career women in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s as designed by famous fashion designers. Includes brief background about designers and images of designs from designers such as Geoffrey Beene, Oscar de la Renta, James Galanos, and Yves Saint Laurent. From the Mississippi State University School of Human Science. http://www.msstate.edu/dept/humansci/HistoricCostumes/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Jun 7, 2009 The Aloha Shirt
Brief illustrated history of the brightly colored and patterned casual Hawaiian shirts known as "aloha shirts." "In the late 1920's and early 1930's tourists, always looking for exotic souvenirs, fell for a fad of the young islanders, unusual prints. Artists and tailors spotted a serious business. The name 'aloha shirt,' registered in 1936, soon labeled a flourishing industry." Includes photos. From a Hawaiian coffee company that also produces a travel and tourism magazine. http://www.coffeetimes.com/aloha.htm Topics: Fashion Last updated Feb 9, 2009 Arbiters of Style: Women and the Forefront of Fashion
Companion to a 2008 exhibit on the "'arbiter of style' ... a tastemaker (whether publicly anointed or self-proclaimed) who has the authority to judge and dictate what is fashionable. ... This exhibition focuses on the female creators, promoters, and influential clients who have helped to shape the course of fashion for more than 250 years." View annotated images of fashions back to the early 1800s. From the Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Design). http://www3.fitnyc.edu/museum/Arbitersofstyle/ Topics: Fashion, Women Last updated Feb 10, 2009 Bedecked, Bedazzled & Bejeweled: Costume Ornamentation at New York City Ballet
Online exhibit and accompanying article about New York City Ballet costumes. "In photographs, the costumes bloom with a fierce poetry, products of wild imagination and painstaking industry. The tutus and tiaras, the grand gowns and flirty skirts, the formal men's jackets and dapper vests worn by generations of New York City Ballet dancers can now be viewed here." View images highlighting details of ballet costumes. From the New York City Ballet. http://www.nycballet.com/researchers/archive/bedecked.html Topics: Dance, Fashion Last updated Sep 29, 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 Corsets and Crinoline
Series of illustrated essays on corsets and crinoline in fashion history. Discusses changes in body shape throughout the Victorian period ("from cage crinolines to bustles and body-hugging corsets"), crinolettes and the "healthy corsets" of the late 19th century, corsets in the early 20th century and in contemporary fashion, and related topics. From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/corset/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Jun 27, 2008 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 Museum of Canada
This museum is "home to a collection of 35,000 artifacts spanning 400 years." The site provides images of some collection highlights, and a virtual tour of the "Milestones and Memories" exhibit, which features clothing from the life of a fictional woman from rural Manitoba. Also includes an archive of family photos showing late 19th and early 20th century dress. Some material also in French. http://www.costumemuseum.com Topics: Agriculture, Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Feb 16, 2005 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 Culture and Costume: Depictions of Jewish Dress Across Five Centuries
This small exhibition or rare prints "documents the perceptions and imaginings of travelers and artists who illustrated Jewish modes of dress and ways of life in various parts of the world from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries." Illustrations are accompanied by brief essays. From the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. http://www.jtsa.edu/prebuilt/exhib/costume/index.html Topics: Fashion, Judaism Last updated May 6, 2008 Dressed to the Nines: A History of the Baseball Uniform
This exhibit examines the history of baseball uniforms from the mid-1800s to the 21st century. Features an illustrated timeline, essays on parts of the uniform (such as caps, jerseys, numbers and names, stockings, and shoes), a database of uniform designs, and activities for children. From the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/ Topics: Baseball, Fashion Last updated Jul 13, 2007 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 Fashion in Colors
Companion to an exhibit that "explores color as a design element through 300 years of Western clothing, examining the changing perceptions and meanings of color through various eras. More than 60 costumes are on display, ranging from eighteenth-century court gowns to couture creations by twentieth-century masters such as Balenciaga, Vionnet, Chanel, and Watanabe." Take a virtual tour and find designer profiles with images of selected clothing. From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/fashion_in_colors/ Topics: Art, Fashion Last updated Apr 13, 2009 Fashion Museum
This museum, housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, England, focuses on contemporary and historical dress. The site features images of highlights from the collection and fashion history games. Also includes information about the history of the 18th century Assembly Rooms. Available in English, French, and German. http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/ Topics: Fashion, History, History By Place, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 28, 2007 Fashion Plate Collection
"This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times." Stylistic periods include Empire (1806-1813), Georgian (1806-1836), Regency (1811-1820), Romantic (1825-1850), Victorian (1837-1859), Late Victorian (1860-1900), and Edwardian (1901-1915). Searchable and browsable. "More information about this collection" offers a concise history of these fashion eras. From the University of Washington Libraries. http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances Last updated Jan 25, 2005 Fashion-Era
Over one hundred "content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume, Clothing, Textiles and Social History." Searchable, and browsable by major category, such as body adornment, royal fashion, undergarments, Victorian fashion, image and wardrobe planning, fashion design tutorials and tips, and more. From a fashion and textiles instructor. http://www.fashion-era.com/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances Last updated Feb 5, 2004 Footwear of the Middle Ages
This site provides "an ongoing examination of the history and development of footwear and shoemaking techniques up to the end of the Sixteenth Century." It provides detailed information about shoemaking techniques in the European Middle Ages, many illustrations, a glossary of historical shoemaking, a bibliography, and related links. From librarian Marc Carlson. http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances Last updated Nov 13, 2003 The Historic Costume & Textiles Collection at The Ohio State University
This site highlights items from this fashion collection, which includes "a range of historic textiles from the 15th century to 20th century furnishing fabrics ... [and] garments and accessories from the mid-18th century to contemporary 21st century designers." Features selected images from the collection and from exhibits such as "A Century of Style: 100 Years of 4-H Fashion." Includes related links. http://costume.osu.edu Topics: Agriculture, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Feb 17, 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 History of the Kimono
This colorful site covers the development of the traditional Japanese garment from the primitive Jomon period of early history (before 300 A.D), to the Edo period (1601-1867 A.D.). Many graphics display the styles and features of men's, women's, and children's kimonos. http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kimono/ Topics: Fashion, History, History By Place, Holidays & Observances Last updated Mar 6, 2004 History's Closet: Everything From Aprons to Zippers
This site provides annotated images of selected items from the holdings of a U.S. fashion history collection, such as basketball uniforms and bathing suits, hats, prom dresses, and a yashmak. From the Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection at North Dakota State University. http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ercc/exhibitions/histcloset.html Topics: Fashion Last updated Apr 6, 2006 Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses
This exhibition highlights American Indian dress designs and designers from the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Plateau regions. Features zoomable images, photos, maps, animated illustrations, video clips, and more. The introduction includes profiles of designers who contributed knowledge to the exhibit. From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/identity_by_design/IdentityByDesign.html Topics: Fashion, Native Americans Last updated Nov 5, 2008 Images of Fashion From the Court of Louis XIV
Companion to an exhibit that "explores the evolution of style at the court of Louis XIV (1638 - 1715) through illustration. The exhibition presents an extremely rare collection of engraved fashion plates from the 17th century, generally regarded as the origin of modern fashion illustration." Includes images (including of peasants, street vendors, and Commedia dell'Arte costumes), and miniature paintings with costume overlays. From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=exhibit&id=6635 Topics: Fashion Last updated Dec 6, 2007 Inaugural Fashion
Illustrated essay highlighting fashions worn by first ladies at inaugural ceremonies for U.S. presidents. Features video clips and images of some of the inaugural gowns. Part of a PBS Online NewsHour program covering the 2001 presidential inauguration. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/inauguration/fashion.html Topics: Fashion, The United States Presidency Last updated Jan 10, 2007 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 Picturing Women
This presentation "explores how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative." Features a large collection of historical images, interactive features, lesson plans, reading list, video clips and images from the accompanying symposium, e-cards of comic valentines, and more. From Bryn Mawr College, Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library. http://www.picturingwomen.org/ Topics: Fashion, Women Last updated Feb 13, 2008 The Regency Fashion Page
A wealth of images, information, and links relating to 18th and early 19th century fashion for men and women. Includes images and articles from period fashion magazines, online books about Regency fashion, a year by year chronology of what people were wearing, and more. http://regencyfashion.org/ Topics: Fashion, History, History By Place, Holidays & Observances Last updated Aug 1, 2006 The Right Chemistry: Colors in Fashion, 1704-1918
This exhibition "begins at a time when few dyers were chemists and almost all colors were extracted from living organisms, and ends at a time when dyes were synthesized in laboratories." Features a discussion of the creation of red, blue, yellow, white, beige, purple (including the "rage for mauve and the aniline dye boom" in the late 1850s and 1860s), and green dyes, along with images of historical clothing. From the Kent State University Museum. http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/colors/main.htm Topics: Crafts, Fashion Last updated May 19, 2005 The Shape of Fashion and Its Underpinnings, 1870-1960
See what undergarments helped create the shape of women's fashions in the late-19th through mid-20th centuries. "From a tight corset and layer upon layer of undergarments to a simple brassiere, the transition in women's foundations tells the story of their journey toward liberation." Features images of underwear and corresponding clothing for the bustle period, jazz age, Dior's "New Look," and more. From the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana. http://muse.museum.montana.edu/sof/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Jan 8, 2008 Stewardess Uniform Collection
Images of hundreds of retired and current airline flight attendant uniforms, mostly from the 1980s to the present. Browse though images by name of over 300 airlines such as Aeroflot, Air Berlin, Bangkok Airways, Debonair, Iranair, Kuwait Airways, South African Airways, Tikal Jets Airline, and Virgin Atlantic. From an enthusiast. http://www.uniformfreak.com/ Topics: Fashion, Transportation Last updated May 22, 2008 The Story of The Supremes From the Mary Wilson Collection
Companion to a museum display of the performance costumes worn by The Supremes, who "recorded 12 US No.1 hits between 1964 and 1969, including an unprecedented five consecutive chart toppers." Features a design-your-own album cover tool, a reading list and website links, and illustrated essays on the Supremes' style and Detroit, Motown, and the civil rights movement. From the Victoria and Albert Museum. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/exhibition_supremes/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Style and Status: Imperial Costumes From Ottoman Turkey
Companion to "the first international exhibition devoted to sumptuous and graphically stunning imperial Turkish robes (kaftans) from the 16th and 17th century." Includes a link to an interactive feature with detailed views of these garments and links to sites on topics such as Ottoman women and the visual arts, and the Topkapi Palace. From the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/styleAndStatus/ Topics: Fashion, History By Place Last updated Sep 9, 2009 Summer Cool ... Going Vintage Hawaiian!
Article about the evolution of the Hawaiian Aloha shirt. "The reputation of the Aloha shirt has come a long way over the years. What was once a colorful (if not gaudy) tourist memento has evolved into a prized art form combining fashion, style and nostalgia." The site notes that Aloha shirts gained in popularity when Harry Truman was shown wearing one on the cover of a 1951 Life magazine. From a fashion blog. http://www.lookonline.com/hawaiian_shirts.htm Topics: Fashion Last updated Feb 2, 2009 Texas Fashion Collection (TFC)
The TFC "houses more than 15,000 items of historic dress as a valuable resource for students and researchers." Records about items in the collection are searchable by keyword, designer, type of garment, date, and other criteria. The site also includes images of selected garments and designs, images from exhibitions, teaching materials, and related resources. From the University of North Texas. http://www.tfc.unt.edu/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances Last updated May 28, 2009 Textiles & Apparel: Cornell Costume Collection
Website of the Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell University, "which includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial collection of ethnographic textiles and costume." Contains a gallery of selected items, and a catalog of the collection (note: "for full functionality ... [the catalog] must be viewed in Internet Explorer"). http://costume.cornell.edu/ Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Notable People: Arts & Humanities Last updated Dec 31, 2005 University of Hawai'i Virtual Museum: Historic Costume Collection
Compilation of materials about historic clothing held by the University of Hawaii, many of which have Hawaiian connections. Click on "Visit the Collection" to see images from exhibits on batik, beach fashions from sarongs to thongs, the holoku, and surface design in east Asian costume. The "Hawaiian Sub-Collection" includes brief information about the holoku, holomuu, mu'umu'u (muumuu), and Aloha shirt. http://www.museum.hawaii.edu/collections/costume/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Feb 2, 2009 The Victoria and Albert Museum: 1960s Fashion and Textiles
This site presents "a representative selection of 1960s clothing and fabrics," many of which have appeared in the museum's exhibitions and publications. Covers 1960s dress, fashion in 1960s London, and fashion and textile designers. Also features fashion memories submitted by readers that were part of the fashion revolution of the 1960s. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/1960s/ Topics: Fashion Last updated Jun 3, 2008 Works of Art: The Costume Institute
"The world-renowned Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum [in New York] possesses more than 75,000 costumes and accessories from seven centuries and five continents." This site provides a brief overview of the collection and images of 50 specially selected items. Also includes images and information about exhibits on topics such as fashion and furniture in the 18th century, rock-and-roll style, and "Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed" (about items such as corsets, bustles, and lotus shoes). http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8 Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 17, 2005 |
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