Visual Dress Resources

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES ARTstor --  A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and provides the tools to actively use those images.   Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Online  -- Encyclopedia contains comprehensive articles on dress and adornment across cultures and throughout history. The articles feature images, focusing on countries, cultural groups, dress types, and themes.    Oxford Art Online -- Database provides search and browse capabilities that allow users to refine results and choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images. Database includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.   Visual Research Methods in Fashion.                                     Gaimster, Julia. Visual Research Methods in Fashion. Oxford: Berg, 2011. Print. --  Provides researcher with strategies, concept development, research tools, presentation skills, case studies, and colour theory.   This book is strongly recommended for all visual research topics.

LIBRARIAN'S PICK -- THE KYOTO COSTUME INSTITUTE The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) --  "KCI systematically collects and preserves outstanding examples of western clothing through the centuries, as well as the documents and other items related to this area of study. The institute also conducts research, subsequently exhibiting or publishing its findings."    -- The KCI Digital Archives website provides access to image and text for 200 articles of clothing arranged in chronological order from the Kyoto Costume Institute’s Collection. Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Publications -- The KCI allows limited access to "Dressstudy," exhibition catalogs, and other KCI publications. The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) Collaborated Publications -- Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century. Revolution in Fashion: European Clothing, 1715-1815. Fashion in Colors. Flair: Fashion Collected By Tina Chow. Fashion: Une Histoire De La Mode Du XVIIIE Au XXE Siècle: Les Collections Du Kyoto Costume Institute. Modachrome: El Color En La Historia De La Moda: Exposición Coorganizada Por El Kyoto Costume Institute Y El Ministerio De Cultura, Museo Del Traje.

NOTABLE PRINT RESOURCES -- Provides reprints of authentic and rare sources on fashion, costume, and textile designs from ancient times through the 20th century. Fashion in Photographs -- Fashion in Photographs Publication Series.                                      NEWSPAPERS AP Images from ACCUWEATHER -- An archive comprised of photographs, audio, graphics, and text covering over 190 years of news and events.   Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -- Provides access to newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).   Ethnic NewsWatch -- Database covers the print media of cultural, ethnic, and racial minority press.   Historical Newspapers -- Provides researchers in history, politics, economics, business, and the arts access to primary and secondary sources: Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790 to 1905; The Official Index to the Times, 1906 to 1980; The Historical Index to the New York Times 1851 to September 1922: and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870.

COSTUME AND TEXTILE DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago Textile Collection   Bata Shoe Museum Bonnie Cashin Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000   Boston Museum of Fine Arts   Cornell Costume and Textile Collection  The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Database Digital Dress Project, Wayne State University, The Henry Ford, Detroit Historical Museums, and Meadowbrook Hall Costume Collections  Ohio Digital Resource Commons (DRC) -- Daphne Dare Collection The Drexel Digital Museum Project: Historic Costume Collection   Fashion Museum, Bath, United Kingdom   Fashion Columbia Study Collection Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archive   LACMA Costume and Textiles   The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Online Collection   Smithsonian Women's Dress Collection   University of Washington Libraries Fashion Plate Collection   V&A Fashion, Jewellry, and Accessories   V&A Textiles

GENERAL DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS Ad*Access American Memory   Flickr Commons Getty Images   Life Photo Archive hosted by Google   Luna Insight Collections     Reel Poster Gallery Treasures of the New York Public Library   UCLA Library Digital Collection Portal   VADS: the Online Resource for Visual Arts

BROWSING Library of Congress Classification Outline Library Stack Areas Subclass GT GT1 7070                Manners and customs (General) GT500 2370            Costume.  Dress.  Fashion Subclass NK NK1-(9990)             Decorative arts NK4700-4890         Costume NK8800-9505.5      Textiles Subclass TT TT1-999                 Handicrafts.  Arts and crafts TT490-695             Clothing manufacture.  Dressmaking.  Tailoring  See --    BF Human Development ;  HD Consumer Science ; NK  Arts                               in general ;                TP Chemical Technology ; TR Photography ; TS                                                 Manufactures ;                TT Crafts and Fashion ;  TX  Home Economics