Dance Resources: Recommended Web Sites

(Kingdom of Atlantia of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc) – Extensive links to finding and making your own historical costumes.

Costume links for Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Romantic, Gay 90’s, Roaring 20s, Fifties, and Other.

A linking page to a dozen or so film and theater designers.

Covers Elizabethan (26th century) England as well as some European wear.

The Educational Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings, and Care.

Contains nearly one thousand different 35mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939. The online collection contains electronic versions of each of these images indexed by title, author, subject, theater, place, date, and related names.

An online book.

This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century. Access 4000 costume pictures through a database, read one of hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.

View the Met’s costume holdings.

More than 6,000 fashion illustrations from the 1920s and 1930s covering more than a dozen designers.

Explore the Victorian era through fashions, holidays, history, decorating and travel.

Everything a costumer needs to know at one site.