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Costume Gallery - fashion history, costume designers, and historical patterns.
Couturi�re Parisienne, La - illustrated history of costume from 1400-1939 with patterns plus Bavarian and Asian folk costumes.
Elizabethan Costuming Page - devoted to all facets of 16th century Elizabethan and Tudor costume, dress, and fashion. Includes instructions for stockings, corsets, shoes, and more.
Costume Society of America - nonprofit organization seeking to advance global understanding of all aspects of dress and appearance. Also publishes the journal Dress.
Vintage Hawaiian Shirt: An Artistic Retrospective - [read review] - collection of more than 100 vintage rayon, silk, and cotton Hawaiian shirts dating from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Husfliden - Norwegian Bunads - features photographs of whole bunads and traditional folk dress from the various counties in Norway.
Renaissance Tailor, The - 16th and 17th century tailoring techniques, pattern sources, and demonstrations.
National Geographic Magazine: Swimsuits: 100 Years of Pictures - includes photo gallery of swimsuit history, postcards, and desktop wallpaper.
Boys' Historical Clothing - survey of boys' clothes styles. Covers various styles from Fauntleroy suits and kilts to short pants suits and modern causual clothes.
Costumes of the Levant - features analysis and pictures. Includes the historic dress of Kurdish, Bedouin, Syrian village, and Metouali women.