TA280 Costume Design

The collection contains Bonnie Cashin's personal archive documenting her design career. The collection includes Cashin's design illustrations, writings on design, contractual paperwork, photographs of her clothing designs, and press materials including press releases and editorial coverage of her work.

Includes nearly 9,000 items of apparel, accessories and flat textiles dating from the eighteenth century to present, including substantial collections of functional clothing, technical textiles, and ethnographic costume

This exhibition from the University of Texas at Austin includes 228 costume designs and other materials from 60 theater and film productions in the B. J. Simmons archive dating from 1889 to 1959.

The Drexel University Historic Costumes Collection represents fashion from the 1890s to 1999 and contains around 10,000 items. Digital database is currently under construction. Must create an account to view full size images.

Contains digitized fashion images from the collections of the New York Public Library.

Original fashion plates collected, cataloged and digitized. Many of these plates are from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century. They are primarily hand-colored engravings although some of the plates after 1885 are colored lithographs.

Google has recently presented a virtual exhibition of free access that shows 3,000 years of the world of fashion. Option to explore more than 400 stories created by curators who come from the major fashion institutions around the world. Includes virtual reality, 360-degree videos, street images and high-resolution images that are used to preserve collections and make them available to everyone.

"The Pattern Project is an online resource produced by the Costume and Textiles department at LACMA which publishes free downloadable garment patterns of historic dress in the permanent collection. Each printable PDF includes a scaled pattern of an extant fashion object from the collection, a description with historic context and object-based observations, overall and detail images, and instructions for construction of the garment."

This collection from LACMA represents fashion styles and trends from the 20th century.

The Met's Costume Institute collection contains over 47,000 items representing fashion and design of over 1000 years.

The Motely Collection at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has over 5000 original items from more than 150 Shakespearean productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.

Prominent fashion museum with a permanent collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present. Easily searchable and browseable (by category, date, etc)

The Goldstein Museum of Design at the UofM College of Design houses over 34,000 items related to fashion, costuming, and household design.