Costumes

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - Villa Ivilla. Information on daily life in ancient Rome including food, time, and clothing for men and women.

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - Deliberately Concealed Garments Project. The Textile Conservation Centre at the University of Southampton explores the folk tradition of concealing clothing in the fabric of buildings.

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - The Costumebase. Access over 3500 pictures that depict period costume, fabrics and fashion accessories: paintings, prints, fashion plates, and photographs of extant items.

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - JMDCo. Resource and training facility for students of heritage management and historic clothing.

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - La Couturière Parisienne. Large collection of links and printed resources on costume history.

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - Sempstress Elizabethan Costume. Instructions for making elizabethan costume, costume gallery, and interactive costume design tool (ye old dial-a-dress).

Recreation, Living History, By Topic, Costumes - Albanach.org. Topics include clothing from Medieval Scottish Highlands.

A site for learning about Victorian costume. Includes how-tos, images, resources, and more.

There is nothing new to say of the manner of making dresses, and our fashion plates give the very prettiest styles out; it will be noticed that all the dresses are close-clinging in front.

On cold days, indeed, the wrapping cloak and cloth pelisse are still to be seen on a few, but a very few ladies; the generality, however.