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Underwear: Beneath Historic Fashions Calendar 2003

 

After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles

Vintage Hats & Bonnets 1770-1970 : Identification & Values

 The Complete Guide to Vintage Textiles

Collector's Guide to Vintage Fashions Identification and Values : Identification and Values

The Costume Collector's Companion 1890-1990

'New Raiments of Self' : African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Claire McCardell : Redefining Modernism

Art to Wear Sharp VL-WD255U 2.5'' Viewscreen Digital Camcorder with Smart Media Slot and Built-in Digital Still Mode

Addressing the Century : 100 Years of Art & Fashion
Fashion, the Twentieth Century
Vogue: Twentieth-Century Fashion
Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity

Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd

Eyewitness: Costume

The Gallery of Fashion

Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty

Minolta Dimage X 2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design

Antique & Vintage Clothing: A Guide to Dating & Valuation of Women's Clothing 1850 to 1940

Haute Couture & Pret-A-Porter : Mode 1750-2000

Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd: The inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes 

Madeleine Vionnet

Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860 by Janet Arnold Hats And Bonnets (Fashion & Style)

Buttons And Trimmings (Fashion & Style)

Embroideries (Fashion & Style)

Patterns of Fashion 2 : Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940

Patterns of Fashion : The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620

  20,000 Years of Fashion : The History of Costume and Personal Adornment

Lace, a Guide to Identification of Old Lace Types and Techniques: Revised 2nd Edition With Price Guide
The Study of Dress History

 

A History of Men's Fashion

A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America

Tomorrow's Heirlooms: Fashions of the 60s & 70s (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Polyester: The Indestructible Fashion (Schiffer Book for Collectors and Designers.)
Fashionable Clothing: From the Sears Catalogs - Early 1970s (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

The Child in Fashion: 1750-1920 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Miller's Collecting the 1960s (Miller'S)
Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Early 1980s (Schiffer Book for Collectors and Designers.)
Miller's Collecting the 1950s Couture Culture : A Study in Modern Art and Fashion Lace A History Books Santina Levey

Platform Shoes: A Big Step in Fashion (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

Star Trek Fans and Costume Art (Folk Art and Artists Series) Miller's Collecting Fashion & Accessories

The Vintage Fashion Directory

 

 

 

 

General

Reviews of Specific Museums

Textile and Costume Collections on the Internet

Museum.com listing of Textile Museums

Coudal Partners - MoOM

V&A - Fashion Collections Elsewhere

Antique Photograph Ring

Fashion museums and collections

Fashion Museum · Dedicated to the world's fashions

Calendar Archives - Sally Queen & Associates: Costume Collections in the USA

How do you get to visit a study collection of costumes in a museum?

Reviews of Specific Museums: Textile and Costume

Australia 

Austria

Belgium 

Canada

Société du Musée canadien des civilisations / Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation

Costume Museum of Canada

CMC Costume Collection

Musée McCord Museum

McCord Museum of Canadian History - Interactive Games

McCord Museum of Canadian History - 19th-Century Women’s Fashion

McCord Museum of Canadian History - 19th-Century Top Models

Radio-Canada's Costume Collection Opening

THE Textile Museum of Canada - HOME PAGE

The Bata Shoe Museum

flickr Photos tagged with batashoemuseum

Royal Ontario Museum

Extraordinary Paper Dresses

Textile Museum Home

Centre National de Recherche et de Diffusion du Costume, COLLECTION DE COSTUMES DE THÉÂTRE

Croatia

 
Czech Republic

Denmark 

France

FRANCE

Musée Galliera - Paris.fr

Un musé à la mode [Paris]

Musee du Chapeau (Hat Museum- France)

Museum of Printed Textiles of Mulhouse

Le musée du textile

Masdearte - Exposiciones (Costume exhibits, including Schaparelli, and Bread Fashion)

Page d'accueil du musée Galliera

TripAdvisor: Musee Souleiado

Paris Pages; Musee de l'Eventail - Information

Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes de Mulhouse

Paris Pages; Bibliotheque-Musee de l'Opera National de Paris - Garnier - Information !

Tara & Lorraine Visit Paris in 2001

1999 UK/Paris Costume Tour Images

Le musée du textile

Les Plus Belles Robes du Cinema (exhibition of Cinema Costumes)

Union centrale des arts decoratifs

Musee national du Moyen Age - (musee Cluny Paris)

Page d'accueil du musee Galliera

Vivre a  Marseille - Culture - Les musees - Musee de la Mode

Musee des Tissus et des Arts decoratifs de Lyon

Musee national des Arts et Traditions Populaires - Centre d'Ethnologie Francaise (CNRS)

Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes de Mulhouse

www.momu.be ModeMuseum Antwerp

Nederlands Textielmuseum

Le musee de la Mode et du Textile

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Tirelli Costumi Home Page (Costume Company with a historic collection)

Benvenuti al Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina

MUSEO STIBBERT - Firenze - Italia

Museo del costume, collezione Raffaello Piraino - Palermo

Burcado Theatre Library (Italy) Costume Collection

Japan

Kyoto Costume Institute

Fashion a History from the 18th to 20th Century The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute (Taschen 25th Annive (2-volume hard back slip cased orgy of costume porn photos - You want these books, believe me.) 

Fashion (Kyoto Costume Institute) Smaller paperback version with fewer pictures, but still a yummy treat.

museum.com - Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

Kyoto National Museum

The Costume Museum - The Rebirth of The Tale of Genji

Sugino Costume Museum

Sugino Costume Museum: Japanese Dress

Korea

Netherlands

New Zealand

Poland

Romania

Russia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland

UK

Details of Costume Museums in Great Britain

Lotherton Hall

The Museum of Costume (Bath)

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Galleries - Textiles & Dress

Who's Who - Furniture, Textiles and Dress

1999 UK Costume Tour Images (V&A, Musee de la Mode, etc)

Gallery of Costume, Manchester

Design Museum, London

Historic Royal Palaces (inc. Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, etc )

English silks worn in Tredegar House | WalesPast

Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th Centuries (V&A)

Four Hundred Years of Fashion (V&A)

18th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in "Old English Costumes" c.1908

WADDESDON MANOR

Sotheby's - CASTLE HOWARD COSTUMES TO BE SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S

 V & A Magazine [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Northampton Shoe Museum Project

Northampton Museum Boot and Shoe Collection

Somerset Attractions - The Shoe Museum

2001 trip to Europe (A costume junkie at the V&A and elsewhere photographs her trip)

The Art of Dress : Clothes and Society, 1500-1914 (The National Trust)

The National Trust (UK) Costumes

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: "A Grand Design," February 25 to May 17, 1998 (Exhibit on the Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Cosprop Exhibitions Department

National Museums Liverpool

Putting on the style

Costume

Costume Collections in Scotland

St  Edmundsbury Borough Council - Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds

Costume Society Home Page (U.K.)

Pictures of Bath Museum of Costume, Bath, Somerset, England

Northampton Central Museum & Art Gallery 

Allhallows Museum Honiton UK - The Home of Honiton lace

Elizabethan Treasures : The Hardwick Hall Textiles

The British Museum: COMPASS

Welcome to The Northern Society of Costume and Textiles

Marriage A La Mode - Killerton

Costume and Fashion History Museums in Great Britain List.

Cosprop Exhibitions Department

Welcome to the Textile Society

Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - The Museum

The Fan Museum:  The World's greatest collection of antique and modern fans

The Milford-Cottam Collection of Vintage Fashions

Embroidery in Britain From 1200 to 1750: The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection

V&A Access to Images

Fashion & Textile Museum

Museum of London - Costume Collection

Northern Society of Costume & Textiles UK

Enjoy Britain visits Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, Historic House

Historic Royal Palaces: Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, Kensington Palace

-Museum of London-

Tiaras - V&A Exhibtion

Deliberately Concealed Garments Project | Search the database of concealed garment finds

Zandra Rhodes sells fashion museum [7 November 2006]

Enjoy Britain visits Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, Historic House

Fashion & Textile Museum, London

The Fashion & Text