Costume & Fashion
Assistant Professor Liz Gruchala-Gilbert is the liaison librarian for Costume & Fashion
Office: #129 Main floor of the library
Phone: 206-281-2790
Email: lgg@spu.edu
Women's Wear Daily Online Subscription (limited to the past 12 months, off-campus access requires SPU log-in)
Spoonflower: Design your own fabric
Vintage Pattern Lending Library
Ruffs, Ribbons, Collars, and Cravats : An online exhibit from the Rosenbach Museum and Library featuring neckwear from miniature portraits
Textiles and Fashion Arts Image Collection From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; explore the exhibitions or search the entire museum (over 340,000 images)
Textiles Image Collection From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; browse over 1600 images or scroll down for search box
"Make it Yourself" : Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890 - 1930 E-book by Sarah A. Gordon
American Textile History Museum The virtual home of this Massachusetts museum dedicated to preserving and exhibiting American textiles and costume
Costume Collection : Women's Dresses from the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
La Couturiere Parisienne Costume and Fashion Site includes links to hundreds of images and articles
Fashion Net: Fashion Designers
Fashion-Era: Fashion History and Costume Eras, Victorians to Haute Couture includes about 200 content rich, illustrated pages of fashion history, costume, clothing, textiles, & social history
Hispanic Designers from the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
History of Costume: By Braun & Schneider c.1861-1880 web version of the book Costumes Through the Ages: The Evolution of Styles of Dress Illustrated in 250 Plates and Over 1500 Figures
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online includes some digital images for clothing & dress, costume, design, fashion drawings, fur fashions, gloves, hats, hairdressing, hosiery, shoes, textiles, & umbrellas & parasols
Style.com includes runway collections from fashion shows & also news & trends; online home of Vogue & W
Sweatshops in America Online exhibit, "Between a rock and a hard place: a history of American sweatshops (1820-present) from the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
Cornell Costume & Textile Collection includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial collection of ethnographic textiles & costume; Cornell University
Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum Textile Collection
Web Resources in Costume includes information categories of resources, exhibitions & museums, libraries, & organizations; University of British Columbia
Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute
