This site invites you to "enter the world of fashion and witness the change in silhouettes, accessories, lingerie and hairstyles from the 18th to the 20th century...

This useful collection of paintings--mostly British and often nineteenth century--often provides interesting illustrations...

"A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries...

Homepage for Cornell University's collection of more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial collection of ethnographic textiles and costume...

A site that provides over 500 links to costume designers, products and service, costume history and research, textile definitions and data, online costume classes, and just-for-fun features, such as the online costume ball...

This site leads to text and images at many, many specialized costume and museum sites; also provides links to suppliers of all kinds of costuming needs...

More than 30,000 digitized, public-domain images from books, magazines, postcards, and other sources...

The purpose of this rich and stimulating collection of world textiles has been to provide real examples that demonstrate the application of a broad range of textile techniques and processes, encouraging students to handle textiles and to respond to their qualities and to question and analyse them as a primary source; it plays a central role in stimulating creative investigation and supporting students in their understanding of the factors influencing textile design and production...

"The Textile Society of America provides a forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about all aspects of textiles: historic, artistic, cultural, social, political, economic, and technical...

Compilation of international theater resources with useful links...