LibGuides: Theatre: Costuming

Costuming Resources

The Complete Costume Dictionary by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski
Call Number: REF GT507 .L49 2011
ISBN: 9780810840041
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Contemporary Fashion by Richard Martin
Call Number: GT2520 .C66 1995
ISBN: 1558621733
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History by James Laver
Call Number: GT511 .L39 1995
ISBN: 0500202664
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture by Marlis Schweitzer
Call Number: PN2277.N5 S39 2009
ISBN: 9780812241570
Publication Date: 2009-05-14
Link leads to ebook version available with Butler University credentials.
Costume Language: A Dictionary of Dress Terms by Stephanie Curtis Davies
Call Number: GT507 .D38 1994
ISBN: 089676138X
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Costume Patterns and Designs: a Survey of Costume Patterns and Designs of All Periods and Nations from Antiquity to Modern Times by Max Tilke
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT513 .T54 1957
ISBN: 084781209X
Publication Date: 1957
The Dictionary of Costume by R Turner Wilcox
Call Number: GT507 .W5
ISBN: 9780684106601
Publication Date: 1969
The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming; C Willett Cunnington; Phillis Cunnington; Charles Relly Beard
Call Number: REF GT507 .C86 2010
ISBN: 9781847885340
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History by Victoria Sherrow
Call Number: TT957 .S46 2006
ISBN: 0313331456
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion by Joanne Bubolz Eicher
Call Number: REF GT507 .E54 2010 v. 1-10
ISBN: 9780195377330
Publication Date: 2010-07-15
Fashion and Costume in American Popular Culture: A Reference Guide by Valerie B. Oliver
Call Number: GT605 .O45 1996
ISBN: 0313294127
Publication Date: 1996-09-30
Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years by Richard Corson
Call Number: GT2290 .C6 2001
ISBN: 0720610931
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
The Guide to Historic Costume by Karen Baclawski
Call Number: GT507 .B23 1995
ISBN: 0896761371
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes by Albert Racinet
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT510 .R3313 1988
ISBN: 0816019762
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume and Fashion: From 1066 to the Present by Jack Cassin-Scott
Call Number: GT720 .C37 1994
ISBN: 0289800935
Publication Date: 1994-12-31
Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Aline Bernstein
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT595 .B45 1959
ISBN: 0486417069
Publication Date: 1959
A Pictorial History of Costume: A Survey of Costume of All Periods and Peoples From Antiquity to Modern Times Including National Costume in Europe and Non-European Countries by Wolfgang Bruhn; Max Tilke
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT513 .B763 1955
Publication Date: 1955

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Chicago History Museum, Digital Collection: Costume and Textile Collection The Chicago History Museum's Costume and Textile Collection features 50,000-plus artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present. Its focus reflects its urban origins: many of its contents were worn by "former presidents and first ladies, sports stars, celebrities or everyday people." Otherwise the items' connections to Chicago are via dressmakers, milliners, and manufacturers. The collection is particularly strong in 20th-century items, women's wear, and pieces designed by Charles James. Images and metadata are of high quality and vetted by the museum. (R. Tolley-Stokes, East Tenn. State U. for CHOICE)
Costume Gallery Websites "You may tour through the 14 areas of The Costume Gallery Websites. We have over 40,000 web pages, 85,000 images, and two databases. Our websites vastly covers the history of the fashion / costume / textile industries."
Costume Page
Daphne Dare Collection This collection includes costume and scene designs from more than fifty productions by British designer Daphne Dare (1929-2000). Dare designed for major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic as well as for television and film.
Elizabethan Costuming Page This site, divided into 16 sections, focuses on a broad variety of topics related to clothing in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Of particular interest are those entitled, "Portraits and Pictures" and "Regional and National Fashions."
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Useful to Renaissance enthusiasts and those involved with costuming!
Europeana Fashion This portal provides free access to digital fashion and costume collections across Europe. Launched in March 2012, this online fashion archive features 700,000-plus objects, including clothing, accessories, photographs, posters, illustrations, and videos. The archive encompasses collections from 22 contributing partners from 12 European countries, including the private archives of Pucci and Missoni and museums such as the Victoria and Albert, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, and the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum. The project is coordinated by the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Italy, a nonprofit working to preserve "digital memories" by developing digital preservation strategies, promoting greater collaboration among European cultural centers, and providing educational opportunities to explore best practices for preservation. Europeana Fashion is an ambitious project to aggregate existing digital content from public and private European fashion collections and incorporate it into Europeana (CH, Dec'09, 47-1742), a portal offering access to the online collections of European cultural heritage institutions. Scheduled for completion in 2015, Europeana Fashion is planning a specialized fashion thesaurus to enable searching across collections--an especially challenging task in a multilingual environment. The website provides broad keyword searching of collections. Search results may be filtered by object type, e.g., hats, photographs, or dresses; by designer; by content provider; or by color of the object and surface treatments. Also featured is a unique resource titled Fashion and Intellectual Property 'Best Practice' Guidelines, designed to assist project partners and site users with managing intellectual property rights for fashion content, including images. In addition, Europeana Fashion has developed a presence on social media platforms, including Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube. Because this resource is under development, users sometimes may experience limited functionality and quality control, such as broken links, inaccurate search results, and formatting and printing challenges. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. --C. B. Cannon, Brand Library and Art Center
Google Images: Costume History This link performs the search described in the titles and provides a vast array of costume history-related images!
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection The mission of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is to further "the understanding of human beings within their material and social environments through the study of textiles of artistic, cultural, and historic significance." It is primarily a teaching collection serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Human Ecology's Design Studies Department. It includes 13,000 textiles and related objects spanning spanning various places, techniques, and time periods. The Digital Collections database provides open access to images and cataloging information for almost 9,000 items in the HLATC. This unique trove is very useful for research and instruction in the study of textiles. The collection is especially strong in ethnographic textiles and costumes from all over the world, especially Latin American, African, South and Southeast Asian, and Turkish objects. It is also strong in 19th- and 20th-century American and European home furnishing and apparel fabrics. The database is fully searchable by keyword, title, subject, and geographic area. (Y. Cortes, Skidmore College for CHOICE)
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design The digitized version of the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is based on originals housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Motley Collection consists of over 5000 costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric. The collection documents 150 productions of Shakespeare and modern classics, dating from 1932 to 1976, staged in England and the United States. The majority of the collection has been digitized, and can be searched by play title, theater name, actor and director names, as well as medium. In addition, production notes have been compiled for selected plays; for example, a researcher interested in a 1954 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream can view excerpts of reviews, commentary from the set and costume designer, Margaret Harris, and a cast list including Vanessa Redgrave who played Helena.
Stage Costume Exhibit (Victoria and Albert Museum) An online exhibit from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibit highlights stage costume designers, costume makers, and the costumes themselves.
Tonic to the Imagination:Costume Design for Stage & Screen by B.J. Simmons & Co.,1889-1959 The B.J. Simmons & Co. costume shop in London produced costumes for theater and film, along with renting out costumes to such venues for over 100 years. In 2010, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin had a web exhibition of 228 costume designs from over 60 productions from the span of 1889-1959. The link from xhttp://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/bjsimmons/ is no longer active but using the search term "Simmons" shows background and design records inventory. See also http://www.booktryst.com/2010/05/ransom-center-exhibit-proves-costume.html
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Find more at
https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2010/05/26/web-exhibition-explores-costume-designs-for-stage-and-screen-by-b-j-simmons-co/ and https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2010/bj-simmons-exhibition.html

Useful LC Subject Headings

Beauty culture -- United States -- History

Clothing and dress -- Assyria

Clothing and dress -- History

Clothing and dress -- History -- To 500

Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500

Clothing and dress -- Byzantine Empire -- History

Clothing and dress -- Egypt -- History

Clothing and dress -- Greece -- History

Clothing and dress -- Iran

Clothing and dress -- Rome -- History

Clothing and dress in art

Costume

Costume bibliography

Costume design

Costume designers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography --Dictionaries

Costume -- History

Fashion -- History

Footwear -- History

Hairdressing -- History

Hairdressing of African Americans

Hairstyles -- Encyclopedias

Hairstyles -- History

Jewelry -- History

Masks

Mask making

Sewing

Shoes -- History

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