Costumes Period
Below are some useful links about Period on Costumes:
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- Arts: Design: Fashion (867)
- Recreation: Living History: By Time Period (143)
- Society: History: By Time Period (5,305)
| The Costumebase - Access over 3500 pictures that depict period costume, fabrics and fashion accessories: paintings, prints, fashion plates, and photographs of extant items. |
| Deliberately Concealed Garments Project - The Textile Conservation Centre at the University of Southampton explores the folk tradition of concealing clothing in the fabric of buildings. Includes a database of garment finds in the United Kingdom. |
| Fashion-Era - Pauline Weston Thomas and Guy Thomas place costume alongside the social history of an era, focusing on fashion from 1800. Includes undergarments, haute couture and British royal fashion. |
| Historical Costumes by Bjarne Drews - Photographs of reproduction costumes, primarily from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Regency periods. Closeups of handmade lace and embroidery. |
| Historical Events - Advice and critiques on historical costumes. |
| The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion - An ezine of 19th and 20th century costume and needlework resources, offering articles on period dress and related social history, plus free patterns based on original ladies' books and magazines. |
| The Well-Dressed Wench - Collection of costume-related links and resources for living history enthusiasts. Medieval and Renaissance, Colonial and American Revolution, and Civil War or Victorian eras. |
| MSN Encarta: 5 Weird Fashion Trends - Article overview expounding on the current trends of pointy shoes, tanning, makeup, ponchos and capes, and visible underwear, with their origins in history. (July, 2005) |