Miscellaneous Costume Sites
- Antique & Vintage Sewing Machines Virtual Museum — A collection of European & North American sewing machines. Photos & information about the manufacturers.
- BMMT - Arts & Sciences — SCA page w/ some good articles on costuming, etc
- British Title of Nobility — "An Introduction and Primer to the Peerage"
- Centre Nationale du Costume Updated! — In French, images of theater costumes, listed by time period. Includes bios of the costumers. Tres cool!
- Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers — From the Library of Congress, an online collection of newspapers from 1880-1922.
- Costume Classroom — Online costuming courses, some are offered all year. Classes taught by Lea Dread, Jennie Chancey, Marna Jean Davis, Nicole Kipar, Juanita Leisch, JP Ryan, and more.
- Costume College — A three day educational conference on all subjects related to costuming and clothing. Hosted by the Costumer's Guild West.
- Costume Design Page — Costume construction tips ~or~ "Everything you ever wanted to know about costume construction and wish someone had told you ten years ago, dammit."
- Costume Gallery — Over 25,000 images of costume online. You must purchase a "Library" membership to view all of their documents and images.
- Costume History Links — This page, titled "Costume History," has links to many articles.
- Costume Society of America
- DIY Guide to LRP, The — This website is geared to LRP costuming, but has some good basic patterns for shirts, cloaks, etc.
- Early Period — From the website: "Early Period is published quarterly...for the advancement of early period arts, crafts, sciences and research. Early Period deals in the pre-1066 A.D. topics of interest to persons with early period personae in the SCA or similar organizations."
- Fabulous Hats: History of Hats
- Fashion Doll Gallery, by Helen S Rostmoff
- Fursuit Construction FAQ — A great resource on how to make fur costumes, like a mascot costume, with tips on materials, sewing, decorating and more.
- Garments for Girls — An online book from 1919 with instructions on how to sew. World's first home ec book?
- Graph Paper Printer — A shareware program that allows you to create your own graph paper.
- h-costume - archives search engine — Search the h-costume archives.
- h-costume Info Page — How to subscribe to h-costume.
- Historic Cities: Maps & Documents New! — Historic maps from the 16th-19th century. Not only is it interesting to see what cities looked like hundreds of years ago, but some maps including drawings of the inhabitants, e.g. map of Paris 1572.
- History of Costume by Braun & Schneider — 9th century drawings of costume, from antiquity to the 19th century. Not very accurate, but could give you some good ideas...
- International Costumers Gallery New! — Online archives of the International Costumer's Guild. Photos from ICG events from the past 70+ years.
- International Costumers Guild
- International Flat Pattern Repository and Exchange — "To acquire, catalog, database, preserve original patterns and distribute copies of garment patterns that have historical, research or practical value to costume & fashion designers, cutters, re-enactors, historians, vintage clothing reproducers, sociologists and anthropologists."
- Keradwc's Medieval Page — Pictures from SCA events, good for inspiration!
- Known World Costume Symposium — Photos from the SCA event.
- Lady's Resource Site, The New! — "Links to free patterns, historical costume information, and even hairstyle tutorials"
- LOTR Costume Research — All kinds of information on recreating the costumes from Lord of The Rings.
- Meridian Arts & Sciences — Various articles on subjects such as handsewing, how to make a chaperone, constructing an elizabethan ruff, a German gown, etc.
- Nicodemus's Fursuit Pages — Information and photos of fursuits/mascots.
- Old & Interesting — The history of housekeeping, household antiques, domestic objects. Costume related info includes irons for frills & ruffles, laundering equipment, etc.
- Past Times on the Web — SCA - articles on various stuff
- Paula Burch's All About Dye
- Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing
- Pennsic.net — Website for Pennsic, with lots of pictures from past events.
- Period Events & Entertainment Re-Creation Society (PEERS) — Based in the SF Bay Area, holds balls with different themes throughout the year.
- Project Archive, The — "The Project Archive is a place where you can track the progress of your projects, and keep up with the progress of others. It has been designed to serve the needs of the historical recreation and costuming communities. The goal of the Archive is not to replace existing web sites, galleries, and journals, but to provide a central, searchable index of them for the use of the community."
- Rapunzel's Resource New! — Tutorials for different hairstyles for long hair.
- Surviving Garments Database — "A searchable catalog of surviving garments from Europe and the Mediterranean from the dawn of time up through approximately 1500."
- Threads Croquis "family" — Packet of human figures to use for costume design.
- Tournaments Illuminated: Topics Index — SCA periodical, with many different articles ranging from costuming to armour to cooking to chivalry. Some, but not all, of the articles are online.
- Vintage Connection, The — "Your guide to historic, vintage, antique & collectible fashions." Lots of great stuff on this site, including old patterns on this site, from original period magazines.
- Vintage Patterns Wiki New! — Wiki site dedicated to vintage patterns of the 1920s thru 1970s.
- Wardrobes of the Knowne World Unlock'd — SCA site with all kinds of articles, pictures, links, etc.
- Worshipful Company of Glovers of London - Glove Collection — A collection of gloves from the late 16th c through present day.
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