TA305 Dress & Fashion: Global History and Impact

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

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.

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)