 | Use the dictionaries and encyclopedias (also available online -- see
below) to answer general questions such as definitions of fashion terminology,
fashion influences, historical aspects of fashion, and more.
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| Use books selected by library staff. |
| Go to the Alberta Learning Online Reference
Centre
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Fashion Designers
| The Biography Channel site is a good resource for designer biographies. |
Fashion History
| Digital History of Fashion http://alpha.furman.edu/~kgossman/history/ |
| The Costume Gallery http://www.costumegallery.com/ |
| The Museum of Costume http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/ Traces fashion from the 17th to the 20th centuries. |
| FASHION: PAST & PRESENT http://www.teacheroz.com/fashionhistory.htm A huge list of links to various sites about fashion. You may want to start here! |
| Fashion History and Costume Eras, Victorians to Haute Couture http://www.fashion-era.com/ |
| Human Ecology: Textiles & Apparel: Cornell Costume Collection http://www.human.cornell.edu/units/txa/cu_costume.cfm This site has an online gallery of selected items from the collection of European and American fashions from the 18th century to the present. Not all have accompanying images. |
| Costume History at the Costume Manifesto http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm |
| Bissonette on Costume: A Visual Dictionary of Fashion This site displays many images of costumes, clothing and accessories from the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. The time browse breaks each century down into decades, with images of actual clothing from each time period. |
| History of Fashion This site includes fashion information and photos for each decade from 1900-1990. A highlight is that the site discusses the reasons for the development of some items of clothing. |
| Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style - "The Best Dressed exhibition features chronologically arranged groups of historic, contemporary, and traditional dress from around the world." Requires RealPlayer. |
| Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art - This site is a companion to an exhibition "about the women's dress reform movement of the late 19th and early 20th century." |
| The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion and Modernity in Victorian Women's Magazines - Reform of women's dress in the 1800's. |
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