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Costume Links
General Costume Links
Over 1000 costuming links! Historical, ethnic, theatrical. Discussions, technical advice, costume shop quotes, costume movies: It's all here. If you're considering a career in theatrical costume, be sure to read the Costumer's Manifesto section.
A meta-links page. Very well organized and easy to use.
Mailing Lists
The Historic Costume Mailing List (H-Costume)
This list concentrates on re-creating period costume,from the Bronze age to the mid-20th Century. Its emphasis is on accurate historical reproduction of clothing, historical techniques for garment construction, as well as the application of those techniques in modern clothing design. Other topics appropriate for discussion include adapting historical clothing for the modern figure, clothing evolution, theatrical costumes,patterns, materials, books, and sources for supplies. I consider the list to be the single best costume resource on the Web.
Mailing list for anyone with a sewing business. Discussions of business policy, advertising, dealing with difficult customers, technical help, etc.
Elizabethan Costume Links
I could give you an extensive set of links to Elizabethan costume, but Drea's already done it. Everything from a corset pattern drafting engine to lists of suppliers, links to many other Elizabethan costume sites, and a terrific bibliography.
Black Swan Designs at Historic Enterprises makes readymade, made to order, and custom historic clothing of the highest quality. Check out their blackwork embroidery, a superb machine made alternative to handwork. They will sell shirts or smocks with the embroidery, or you can purchase embroidered panels and matching linen yardage to make your own.
This page from a costumer for the Kansas City Renaissance Festival includes some good costume making information. Extensive instructions for making leather boots. He will make custom drafted costume patterns from measurements.
Why go to all the effort of making an Elizabethan costume, only to sit around in it talking about computers? This site will give you a basic grounding in the lives, manners, and conversation of an Elizabethan person. Some costume detail.
Gold Rush Costume Links
An on-line version of an exhibit by the Oakland Museum. Lots of images with good costume detail.
A site about Gold Rush women, sponsored by a recognized authority on women in the gold rush, JoAnn Levy, author of, They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush.
The Gold Rush History Alliance
A Gold Rush reenactment group
. The site archives clothing and fashion of early Nevada pioneers. Virtual museum that chronicles the history and lifestyle of Nevada's founders. Great costume resource.
The history of Levi's, from the Levi Strauss Company historian.