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Cleopatra Costume on Stage and in Film, The
davidclaudon.com

Costume Chronicles: Women and the Story of Their Fashions
By Michele B. Kunz, PhD. Exhibit of women's historical fashions.

Costume Gallery
Fashion history, costume designers, and historical patterns.

Costume Society of America
Nonprofit organization seeking to advance global understanding of all aspects of dress and appearance. Also publishes the journal Dress.

Costumes of the Levant
Features analysis and pictures. Includes the historic dress of Kurdish, Bedouin, Syrian village, and Metouali women.

Couturire Parisienne, La
Illustrated history of costume from 1400-1939 with patterns plus Bavarian and Asian folk costumes.

For the Love of Opera Gloves
For everything relating to the opera-length glove.

Historic Boys Clothes
Review of clothing styles and trends for boys during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes illustrations examples of actual clothes, Fautleroy suits, kilts, sailor suits, ect.

History of Costume, The
Book with full color plates originally published in the late nineteenth century.

Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion
songsmyth.com

Le Poulet Gauche: Clothing
Provides an illustrated introduction to the middle class clothing of 16th century France.

Regency Fashions
Includes many images of fashion plates of the Regency period (early 19th century).

Renaissance Tailor, The
16th and 17th century tailoring techniques, pattern sources, and demonstrations.

Right Chemistry, The
Exhibit which traces the link between color and fashion between 1704 and 1918. From Kent State University Museum.

Sickening Seventies Sweaters
Gallery of tawdry tops from retroCRUSH.

Victorian Costuming
Resource for information on Victorian clothing. Includes original images, how-to's, pattern sources, and more.

Vintage Hawaiian Shirt: An Artistic Retrospective
vintagehawaiianshirt.net

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