General
www.museums.co.uk
Helpful for finding UK museum sites

www.vam.ac.uk
Victoria & Albert Museum

www.metmuseum.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Information about the collection and images of objects

www.paris.org/Musees/Arts.Textile
Musee des Arts de la Mode et du Textile (Musee Galliera)

www.embroiderersguild.org.uk

Milieux: The Costume Site

Costuming

The Costumer's Manifesto

Godey's The Lady's Book (1855-1858)

The History of Costume (by Braun and Schneider, c.1861-1880)

Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild

Costume History:

www.costumegallery.com
Huge site, aimed at students, designers and reproducers of costume. Nice primary sources, eg 19c magazines. Good links.

www.costumes.org
History of costume (no references), nice primary sources such as fashion plates. Good links

www.milieux.com/costume
Nice 19c magazines

http://costume.dm.net/corsets/
How to make an Elizabethan corset

www.centuryinshoes.com
Good pictures, also adverts from each decade of the twentieth century

www.glovers.org
Introduction to the collections of historic gloves belonging to the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London (on loan to the Museum of Costume, Bath)

General Fashion:

www.fashion.resourceaid.com
Resource site for everything to do with fashion.
Full of newsletters, articles, links and other resources - ALL FREE - in one easy to navigate site to save time and money.

Patterns

Before you buy ANY patterns, have a look at this excellent pattern review site!
Sense and Sensibility Patterns
Wingeo -19th Century Men's and Women's Patterns
Regency Wardrobe Pattern
Ageless Patterns
Alter Years
Amazon Drygood
Buckaroo Bobbins
Butterick
Fall Creek Sutlery
Farthingales
Fig Leaf Patterns
Five Rivers Chapmanry
Folkwear
Grand Garb
Harriet's TCS
James Country Mercantile, Inc.
Jas. Townsend & Son
J.P. Ryan
Kannik's Korner
La Mode Bagatelle
Laughing Moon
Margo Anderson's Historic Costume Patterns
Mackenzie-Smith
McCalls
Northwest Traders
Once Upon a Pattern
Past Patterns
Patterns of History
Pattern of Time
Pattern Studio
Period Hats by Lynn McMasters
Rocking Horse Farm
Scandinavian Origins
Sense and Sensibility
Sewing Central
Simplicity
Smoke and Fire
SuitAbility
Talbot's Fine Accessories
Truly Victorian
Wingeo

Miscellaneous:

www.costumesociety.com

www.livinghistory.co.uk
For re-enactors

GREENFIELD PTY LTD , E&M
Melbourne, Australia (03) 9421 0920

Jane Austen:
http://forums.sensibility.com/
The Republic of Pemberley
Janeites

Lord of the Rings - yahoo
Lord of the Rings - web
Mists of Avalon
Moulin Rouge
Period Films and costuming

Pirates of the Caribbean
the Black Pearl
potc costumer
potccostuming

Titanic
V(intage Sewing)

Boning with Hemp Cord
Costume Classroom (online courses)
Costume-Con
Costume Gallery
Costumers Manifesto
Costume Society of America
Croquis (body templates for design)
Dawn's Costume Guide
drafting out darts
Fabric Terms
Fabric Testing
14th Century Sewing Techniques
GLUE - This to That
the Great Pattern Review
Invisible Zipper (how to install)
Mask Making - 'how to' info under "resouces"
Milieux- The Costume Site
One Tough Costumer
Pattern Drafting
Regency Reproductions
Renaissance Tailor - 16th & 17th Cent. Clothing: sewing techniques
Renaissance Tailor - 16th & 17th Cent. Clothing: vocabulary
Sally Pointer and her red dress
Sewing Basics:
Sharon B's Stitches for Embroidery & Needlework
Keeping You in Stitches
Vintage (1926) Sewing Info
Starching a Ruff
String Page: how to use a Lucet, do naalbinding, sprang or tablet weaving
Tunic Construction

Historic Research:

Anglian, 5th Cent.
Viking Resources for the Reenactor
Kievan Rus
the Bliaut
the Cotehardie Page
la Cotte Simple
the Gothic Fitted Dress
the Medieval Woman
Medieval stuff
Footwear of the Middle Ages
Greenland (Herjolfsnes) and also Medieval Greenland
Cotehardies from Greenland
Elizabethan Costuming Page
Corset Generator
Margo Anderson's Historic Costume Patterns
Irish Clothing
Houppelande and also Dame Helen's Houplelande
Flemish Women's Costume
Italian Renaissance
Dutch 1500-1530
Regency
Regency Reproductions

Picture Galleries:

Bliauts, Tabards & Hosen: Images of Medieval Clothing
Book of Hours
Calligraphy & Illumination links
College Portal
Drea's Pictures of 16th cent. Costume
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Images of the fashions of the Middle Ages
LACMA collections online (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Max Tilke book
Miniature Manesseschen Song handbook (German miniatures)
the Royal (Danish) Library Medieval Manuscripts
Timeline of Costumes (redraws)
Tudor Dress - portfolio of Tudor images
Web Gallery of Art
Women in the 16th century

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HAT LINKS

Headdress Classification

How to Make an Italian Ribbon Coif by Briana Etain MacKorkhill

Straw Hats in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art

How to make a Coif [worn by both men & women] by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Embroidered Coif by Aénor d’Anjou

Blackwork Embroidery Coif

Hooded Mantle or Cowl by Randall Whitlock

Medieval Hoods by Cynthia du Pré Argent

13th Century Toque Hat (aka Fillet Hat) by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Crespinettes by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Quick 'n' Easy Cauls by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Men's Rolled (stuffed) Hats by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Women's Rolled (stuffed) Hats by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Basic Construction for a Butterfly Hat or Truncated-Cone Henin by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Arnolfini Headdress, Truncated-Cone Henins and Butterfly Henins by Cynthia du Pré Argent

A Truncated Hennin by Annastassja Diaz de Leon

Truncated Henin Form

Chaperon's and How to Make Them

Mongolian Hat

In Service of Silly Hats: The First Straw -- and the Last Dryer Vent by Cynthia du Pré Argent

Tarpus: Turkish Hat

Headrails by Corisander Seathwaite

How to Make a Hood by Dawn Duperault

The Monmouth Cap

The Bocksten Bog Man Hood

St. Birgitta's Coif

Fernando, Infante de Castille's Coif

Berets/Bagcaps and Flat Caps

Hoods, Chaperons and Liripipes

Caps

Felt Hats

English Hats

French Hats

German and Flemish Hats

Italian Hats

Spanish Hats

How to Make a Renaissance Hat

Make a Soft Cap

Tudor Flat Cap

Men's Italian Renaissance Red Hats

Two Short-Crowned Brimless Hats

Tudor and Elizabethan Coifs

Making an Elizabethan Coif

French Hoods: Their History and Development

Constructing a French Hood

English Gable Hood

Constructing an Elizabethan Muffin Cap

Relative Frequency of Headdresses by Type Found in a Sample of Visual Sources, 1400-1519

Headwear and Haristyles of Venice

Hairnets and Snoods

Netting for Hairnets by Nicolaa de Bracton