Costume & Fashion

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias of Costume & Fashion

• 20,000 Years of Fashion --- Ref  GT510 .B6713
• American Costume 1915 - 1970 --- Ref PN2067 .O3 1987 
• Chronicle of Western Fashion --- Ref  GT511 .P47
• Complete Fashion Sourcebook --- Ref GT596 .P393 2005
• Costume 1066 - 1990's --- Ref  GT730 .P43
• Costume Design on Broadway 1915 - 1985 --- A/M Ref  PN2067 .O94
• Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's Fashion --- Ref TT617 .S36
• Fashion Book --- A/M Ref  TT503 .F37
• Fashion Dictionary --- A/M Ref  TT503 .P49
• Guide to Historic Costume --- Ref  TT503 .B33
• Historical Encyclopedia of Costume --- Ref  GT510 .R3313
• History of Costume and Personal Adornment --- Ref  GT510 .B6713
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume and Fashion --- Ref GT580 .C375
• Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fashion --- Ref  GT513 .K813
• St. James Fashion Encyclopedia --- Ref  TT505 .A1 S7

Digital Collections

Clothing & Textiles Collection
University of Alberta Museums

Conner Prairie Historic Clothing Collection
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Conner Prairie Museum Textile Collection
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Cornell Costume Collection

Costume and Textiles
Musee McCord

Digital Archive of Documents Related to Costume / Fashion
University of Arizona

Digital Dress - Meadow Brook Hall Historic Costume Collection
Wayne State University

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
Library of Congress - American Memory Project

Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories
Victoria and Albert Museum

Gallery of Costume
Manchester Art Gallery

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

Historic Costume Collection
Drexel Digital Museum Project

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Search the Collections

Texas Fashion Collection Digital Library
University of North Texas

History of Costume - Handout for TEXDSGN 2004