SELECTED WEB LINKS

Ad* Access - Duke University digital collection of "images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955"

Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style - Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/best/

Bissonnette on Costume - A visual dictionary on fashion http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/index.asp

Fashion-era - contains 250 pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History http://fashion-era.com/

Fashion Net – The online fashion guide www.fashion.net

Fashion Plate Collection - University of Washington Libraries digital collection http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/

Godey's Lady's Book Online - several complete issues of one of the 19th century's most popular women's magazines, includes fashion illustrations, poetry, engravings, articles. (restricted to ODU users)

History of Costume 1861-1880 - http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML

Librarians' Index to the Internet – Fashion and Costume http://lii.org/search/file/fashion

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume - http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8

Solemates: The Century in Shoes - http://www.centuryinshoes.com/home.html

Style.com -- The Online Home of Vogue and W http://style.com

Vintage Sewing Electronic Reference Library -- "sewing and fashion books and images to provide primary source reference material for those who recreate clothes or costumes representing a specific era or period of history." Dressmaking books are presented by decade from the 1890s to the 1950s. Not all eras are yet represented. http://www.vintagesewing.info/about.htm

An Women's History Month Exhibit of the Old Dominion University Libraries