Stone's Neat Stuff - Historical Clothing References

Costuming and Historical Clothing Links

General Fashion Reference Sites

The Costumer's Manifesto
This is the first place you should go when researching any type of constume use.

http://www.costumes.org

Milieux.
This is one of the great costuming link sites,with a lot of links on historical clothing

http://www.milieux.com/costume/

La Coutuiere Parisian

This is one of the best sites on the internet for serious historical costuming research. She starts her collection in the late 1400s, includes photos of artwork, and real garments, has how-tos and some period patterns, especially some victorian ones from German fashion magazines (these are scanned copies of tailor type patterns that you enlarge yourself). The site is in English and German. A great place to visit!

http://www.marquise.de/

The History of Costume
By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880

This is neat - a major victorian era costume history book that has been put online. Shows you fashions from a victorian perspective.

http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

Children's Clothing

Historical Boy's Clothing
Finding good info out about children's clothing can be difficult. But there is a great site out there about boy's clothing, called, interestingly enough, Historical Boys's Clothing. This is not just a links site, but a study in boy's clothing over a wide period, especially Victorian.

http://histclo.hispeed.com/intro.html

Historical Girl's Clothing
The Historical Boy's Clothing Site has added some stuff on girls clothing as well.

http://histclo.hispeed.com/girl/girl.html

Victorian Baby Fashions

This site is called Dressing Baby 1850s Style. She has links to illustrations from fashion magazines of the era that describe various infant garments and how they should be made.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/readers/kh/db-1850/index.htm

Pre-1700

Clothing of the Ancient Celts:
A guide to Celtic Costume

This site discusses early celtic clothing and culture, with perhaps a bias toward the Irish Celts. Includes things such as bibliography stuff, patterns and other useful info.

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/celtic/intro.html

The Evolution of the Kilt

This site contains a history of Scots national dress from early times on. The first page discusses Scottish dress before 1600. There are other pages that discuss how the kilt began, and how it was worn, women's dress and other topics. Neat for those who are interested in Scottish reenacting, especially.

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/scottish/kilts.html

Baroque Clothing

This is a research site for those interested in clothing for men and women from the 1630s-early 1700s. Covers both men's and women's fashions, including hair styles.

http://www.kipar.org/costumes.html

18th Century

Historical Williamsburg: Clothing

This site discusses men's, women's and children's clothing for 18th century wearing at Williamsburg.

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/history/clothing/index.cfm

Baroque Costume Images

Collection of lovely images from period paintings

http://ashbaugh.freeservers.com/photo5.html

Stitching and Seam Techniques
Seen on Various 18th Century Garments

This is a lovely description of sewing techniques, with documentation as to which garments they have been found used on. This is a pdf file, so you will need Adobe Reader.

http://www.nwta.com/patterns/pdfs/134stitch.pdf

Eighteenth Century Stays

Great closeup of a very nice set of stays with some discussion.

http://www.nwta.com/patterns/pics/ebaystays/ebaystays.html

Regency

Austentation

This is an interesting collection of Regency era references

http://austentation.tripod.com/home.html

Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion
This is another one of those MUST visit sites for those doing Regency era research. Men's and women's clothing, pattern information, pics and other useful things.

http://www.songsmyth.com/costumerscompanion.html

A Regency Era Primer

A bit about background, with pictures and links for both men and women's fashions.

http://members.aol.com/wemakehistory/Reg1.html

The Regency Fashion Page

I like the regency period. This is the period mostly between around 1820-1830. This is the time of Jane Austin, all of those wonderful Georgette Heyer novels I used to read as a girl, the period of Jacksonian America that saw such an expansion to the west. Well, if you are like me, you will love to look at this site. The Regency Fashion Page makes an attempt to draw together fashion resources for this period for both men and women's fashions.

http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/reg3.html

Victorian

The Costume Gallery's Online Library:1800s Costume References

This is a nice collection of links, some unique to the Costume Gallery on a variety of women's fashion issues for the 1800s.

http://www.costumegallery.com/1800.html

Clothing Bibliography for Victorian fashions, 1840-1865

This is put together by Vicki Betts, a tireless and giving researcher who is an active poster on the CW-Reenactor's List.

http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/dress%20bib.htm

Originals by Kay: Sources and Documentation
A collection of fashion plates, articles and photos for 1860s clothing.

http://www.originals-by-kay.com/sources/

The Ladies' Treasury of Costume and Fashion
This site contains a collection of articles, free patterns and craft patterns for late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/index.html

The Vincent Collection
This is a wonderful collection of clothing from the late 1800s through the modern period, with many photos

http://www.vincentcollection.com/index.html