Fashion History :::

Fashion Past & Present
http://www.teacheroz.com/fashionhistory.htm

Traditional Chinese Apparel
http://udel.edu/%7Eorzada/china1.htm

Evolution and Revolution: Chinese Dress 1700s-1990s
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/evrev/

American Vintage Blues: History of Fashion
http://www.vintageblues.com/history_main.htm

Vintagevixen.com
http://www.vintagevixen.com/fashionhistory.asp
Includes descriptions of the silhouette for many of the decades.

The Costume Page
http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html
Many links to sites by time period.

The Costumer’s Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm
Really good coverage of historical periods.  Site for professional theater costumers.  

Romance Reader at Heart
http://romancereaderatheart.com/books.html
Select from Renaissance, Colonial, Civil War, Victorian and early 1900s. An overview of the period is given.  Then click on Timeline at the top for a glossary of fashion terms.

Kingwood College Library's American Cultural History
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
Excellent site with information and links on fashion, art, architecture, literature, education, fads, historic events, music, theater, film, television, and radio.

Fashion-Era
http://www.fashion-era.com/
Good coverage of 1800-1845.

Colonial Williamsburg: Introduction to Eighteenth Century Clothing
http://www.history.org/history/clothing/intro/index.cfm

Blockade Runner's Ladies Fashions
http://www.blockaderunner.com/nlc/nlc.html
Civil War dress and accessories.

1920’s Fashion
http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

Women Fashions—1940's
http://www.costumegallery.com/1940.htm

Women Fashions—1970's
http://www.costumegallery.com/1970.htm

ADFlip
http://www.adflip.com/
World largest database of advertising ads.  Find ads and pictures of fashion from the 1940's to today.

Bad Fads
http://66.34.239.106/pages/fashion.html  One of a kind site about the fads and fashions we would like to forget. 

Fashion books are in R391 and 391.  Some popular titles are Fashions of a Decade 1920-1990, Men's Fashion, Twentieth Century Fashion, 2,000 Years of Fashion, Icons of Fashion, and  so on.  Also check the history books for the fashions of historical periods i.e.  Ancient Greece in 938.  

Last Updated: September 12, 2005