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Costume &
Set Design
- Costume Image
Database
index to selected images used in the
study of fashion and costume at Columbia College
Library
- The Costume Page
over
2,000 unique links listed. Some of them cover
more than one area of interest
- Elizabethan
Costuming Homepage
- The History of Costume
by Braun & Scheider
online
edition of "History of Costume" or
"Zur Geschichte der Kostüme",
printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the
publishing firm of Braun and Schneider. An
excellent source for students who are studying
the history of fashion and for costume designers
- Milieux: The Costume
Site
Online Costuming Sources for
Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Costumers
- Period and Style for
Designers
Hugh
Lester's links at Tulane University
- Project 2000: The
International Theatre Design Archive - Costume
Designers Indexed by Designer
- Project 2000: The
International Theatre Design Archive - Scene
Designs Indexed by Designer
- Richard's Costume
Links
page
maintained by Richard Finkelstein
- Historical Scenic
Collection
Northern
Illinois University/ Lyric Opera of Chicago: a comprehensive depository of
primary scenic materials from the American
Operatic theatre at the end of the 19th and
beginning of the 20th centuries
- The Theatre
Design & Technical Jobs Page
designed
to help the "behind-the-scenes" people
in the live entertainment industry find work, and
to help entertainment groups fill their job
openings
- The Costume
Museum -
The
rebirth of the Tale of Genij
(Kyoto,
Japan) The Costume Museum first opened its doors
in 1974. Since then the museum has exhibited
life-size dolls dressed in the varied and
beautiful garments along the accessories worn
throughout Japan's history. In October 1998, the
Costume Museum opened its latest addition to the
museum, the Spring Palace of the Rokujyo-in.
Using The Tale of Genji as a stage background,
the costumes and life of the nobility of the
Heian Period are exhibited in one-quarter scale.
The juni-hitoe (ceremonial role of court ladies)
and furniture of the period are faithfully
reproduced in scale and placed in the palace
rooms. A portion of one room is reproduced in
full scale
- The Museum of
Costume
(Bath,
UK) The Museum of Costume has a substantial
collection of both men and women’s
fashionable dress from the 18th century
- The Costume
Society
(London, UK)
formed in 1965 to promote the study of costume
and its history, and to help in the preservation
of significant examples of historical and
contemporary dress
- Costume Museum of
Canada
(Dugald, The Forks, Manitoba) The
Costume Museum of Canada (CMC) is home to a
collection of 35,000 artifacts spanning 400
years. The renowned collection represents the
identity of everyday Canadians, urban and rural,
public and private, through the garments that
they made, purchased and wore.
- Bissonnette
on Costume - A Visual Dictionary of Fashion
Kent State
University Museum (Kent, Ohio, US): In the
1960's, Shannon Rodgers began collecting what is
now considered one of the finest period costume
collections in the United States. Today the
collection totals almost 20,000 pieces of
costume. The Museum's Site offers an interesting
Dictionary of Fashion
- The Museum for
Textiles
(Toronto,
Ontario, Canada) The Museum for Textiles'
permanent collection has been built over 20 years
through the efforts of dedicated collectors and
donors. It now numbers over 8,000 pieces and
includes fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments,
carpets, quilts, and related artifacts from
around the world. Over 35 countries are
represented in the collection which is exhibited
on a rotating basis
- Folk Costumes
Around the Globe
A project of
the International Education and Resource Network
- PropPeople
a new site,
intended as a central meeting place for the props
community on the Internet
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