By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com
Costume Resources for Studying Fashion History
There is a great deal of information on this site! There is also references to galleries, museums, and books.
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Costume Sources of Information
Suggestions for finding costume evidence from artifacts, costume plates, fashion plates, fashion dolls and paintings.
Written evidence of advertisements, diaries, and autobiographies.
Local and national starting points.
Fashion Eras 1800-2000
This is a brief overview of terms that identify fashion eras mentioned in this site.
Including Late Georgian, Fin de Siècle, Art Nouveau, Flappers, Art Deco, Roaring Twenties, Op Art, Flower Power, Ethnic Folkloric, Yuppies, Grunge,
Deconstructionism, Minimalism, Purism to Bo Ho Hippy and
Subcultural.
Paintings & Galleries
Paintings that illustrate dress, accessories or textiles.
This page suggests a list of paintings that depict costume or accessories. Most are held in various famous central London museums and galleries.
The main newer fuller section of 18 pages on the history of fashion plates.
Credits
The main newer fuller section of 18 pages on the history of fashion plates.
Contemporary C19th Books
Suggestions for reading books that cover the lifestyles of the C19th fashion eras.
Drawing Template Links for Schools
Body Silhouette Templates
Museums
A list of some British museums holding examples of dress, accessories, textiles or shoes. Telephone numbers and addresses.
Bibliography
A list of books related to fashion, costume and society that I have read over the years or used to develop this site. If you cannot find them at your local library check out the Internet for book sites.