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Costume Design Resources

"The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job". - Edith Head 

IMPORTANT: Also refer to the many important related resources on design listed in the upper left portion of this page. 

Original Artslynx Features:

• Periods of Stage Design, an Outline
• Artslynx History of Props and Materials 
• Artslynx Timelines and Research Resources 
• Artslynx Article on Building an Effective Design Portfolio
• Artslynx Article on Developing a Design Resume

General Resources

• Costume Page, The
• Costume Designers Guild - Film/TV based
• Costume Forms - Various forms and charts available for download.
• Costume Society of America, The - Includes links to many museums
• ELAC Costume Design Resources on the Internet
• Theatrical Wardrobe Union 

Costume History & Research Resources from Artslynx

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time". - Jean Cocteau 

Museums, and Costume Collections

• Museum of Costuming, Britain  
• Centre National du Costume, Montréal, Québec - In French. The site includes links to resources based on many historical periods
• The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Master Sites

• Milieux The Costume Site - Loads of links to all sorts of costume resources by period, geography, and more.
• The Costume Gallery's Research Page - Great collection of links and even vintage fashion articles. Well Organized
• The Costume Page Ethnic & Theatrical Costume - WONDERFUL set of geographic based links
• The Costumers Manifesto - Pretty site with lots of links.
• Art History Resources on the Web - Very nice comprehensive site

Costume History Pages

• The History of Costume Index - MAGNIFICENT! By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880.
• The Costume Gallery - Massive collection of images of many many periods!
  • Children's Fashion 1800-1923
• The Regency Page - Not JUST Costume links but the whole hog. Lots of links.
• Godey's Lady's Book Online
• 18 th century Fashions History - Another 18th c. site.
• Ravensgard Costuming and Textiles Page - Lots of Medieval and Renaissance costuming links primarily
• The History of Tailoring: A short overview
• Classic Girl Fashions - Lots of material and illustrations from the 1950s and 1960s
• French Site on Costume History - Includes the Middle Ages. Excellent site, in French

Bibliographies & Research guides

• Amazon Books guide to over 100 books on costume history. Purchase these online!  Wow!

Education Sites. Departments, Syllabi, etc.

• Costume Institute New York University

 

Organizations

• Costume Society of America
• International Costumer's Guild Home Page
• Unites States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) - Theatre Technology

Artists / Designers

• Erte Museum
• Mucha Museum - Japan
• Mucha Museum - Prague

Ethnic / World

And some all-time favorites from Richard . . .

• The Bureau of Missing Socks - the first organization solely devoted to solving the question of what happens to missing
  single socks. It explores all aspects of the phenomena including the occult, conspiracy theories, and extra-terrestrials.
• Center for Bead Research - fascinating!
• The Corset Page - Loads of resources here
• Mask-Making Laboratory - Fora do sériO. - Located in Brazil. Looks to be excellent.
• Jules Leotard and his invention, including a nice photo of the first "leotard"!

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