Fashion Museum – Useful websites

List of useful websites for other sources of information:

 

General: Galleries and Museums:

http://www.museums.co.uk/
Helpful for finding UK museum sites

 

http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Victoria & Albert Museum

 

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

 

http://www.lesartsdecoratifs/fr/francais/mode-et-textile/
Musee des Arts de la Mode et du Textile (Musee Galliera in Paris)

 

http://www.embroiderersguild.org.uk/


Costume History:

 

http://www.costumegallery.com/
Huge site, aimed at students, designers and reproducers of costume.  Nice primary sources, e.g. 19th century magazines. Good links.

 

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

 

http://www.fashiondig.com/
Mainly about where to buy vintage 20th century clothing, but some good images (mostly unattributed) of 1960s fashion

 

http://www.fashion-flashbacks.com/
Good information on 1960s, 1970s and 1980s fashion, also links to other sites and suggestions of useful books

 

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

 

http://www.theglovecollection.org/
Introduction to the collections of historic gloves belonging to the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London (on loan to the Fashion Museum, Bath)


General Fashion:

 

http://www.fashionangel.com/
Gateway to sites which have received the ‘Angel of Fashion’ award. Easily searchable site with links to sites on beauty, designers, magazines etc

 

http://www.fashion.net/
Another easily searchable site with good links and sections on same areas as http://www.fashionangel.com/


http://www.selvedge.org/
Online site for Selvedge magazine. A comprehensive resource for a wide audience of textile enthusiasts


Designers:

 

http://www.firstview.com/
The most comprehensive site that I have found on European and American designers.  Photos from collections are particularly useful.


Miscellaneous:

 

http://www.costumesociety.com/

 

http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/
For re-enactors