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I absolutely adore Fashion Era. It has an extensive look at historic costume, vintage fashion illustrations, a few basic illustration tutorials and free templates. If you are taking courses in historic costumes and textiles then this site is beyond incredible for references and background information. Plus there are oodles of links posted for other sites around the web.
Some of the categories listed and areas covered include:
- What is fashion? An explanation of fashion history and dress theories
- Current fashion trends
- Body adornment
- 1800 – 1845 Fashion French influence on costume and fashion history; Regency and Romantic era
- The Victorian Era
- 1890 – 1914 La Belle Epoque
- 1914 – 1955 Dress Reform
- 1960 – 1980 Rise of the miniskirts, disco, punk
- Royal Fashion
- Couture Fashion History
- Image and Wardrobe Planning
From the site:
“At Fashion-Era.com we analyse two centuries of women’s costume history and fashion history silhouettes in detail. Regency, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, Flapper,1940’s Utility Rationing, Dior’s New Look, 1960’s Mini dress, 1970’s Disco, 1980’s New Romantics, Power Dressing, Haute Couture, Royal Robes, Fashion Semiotics, and Body Adornment, each retro fashion era, and future fashion trends are all defined.
We’ve also outlined the history of Jewellery, Perfumes, Cosmetics, Corsetry and Underwear manipulation of the body silhouette. Fashion history is a rich area to explore. The effects of past and present technology, changes in work, leisure, media and homelife that affect lifestyle trends, attitudes, fashion trends and shopping trendsetters are all covered in the various eras.
New sections such as hats, hair, cloaks and capes fashion history continue to explore and make this a great web fashion history and costume history resource. Recent new sections also include consumer tests for example on clip in hair extensions plus tips on how to buy and sell vintage, pattern drafting and Christmas themes. There is also a Fashion Forum over 3 years old called Fashion-era Forum. There you can discuss anything from current fashion trends, vintage to costume history from Greeks to the 21st century.”
Have fun exploring!
Wow, what a great resource, thank you for posting this! I think I’ve been directed to a couple of pages from there before, but never knew it was so large.
Now if only they’d branch backwards to include the 18th century too….