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Web Picks
Here are some individual costume sites featured on Alley Cat
Scratch. You'll find a very eclectic mix and max selection for
surfing pleasure...
These are purposely not in order... so you get to pop around to all
kinds of fun. Again I'm favoring sites with lots of links to
explore, so except at least half of these to take you wandering far and
wide on the web.
(Section just starting... so will take a while to grow.) |
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Web Picks for November/December
Web Picks for September/October
It's costume making time!
| The Costumer's Manifesto
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http://www.costumes.org/ |
| This is the ultimate start point for any and all costume
research. It's master link site organized by Tara Maginnis.
Bookmark it at the top for all your needs. You will loose hours here. |
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| Duct Tape Costumes by Duck Tape
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Web Picks for July/August
It's movie costume time. Sharing here a couple of sites with great
pictures and tons of links.
Web Picks for May/June, 2003
| It's Renaissance Faire time, so here's a a great page for
doing all your costume research...
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| A wonderful annual pick of mine is the
FIDM movie costume Exhibit
| This year they have over 100 pictures from over 25 movies |
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Web Picks for March/April, 2003
This month decided to go digging for Irish Dance Costume.
I did not have the luck I expected. My old how-to links were gone... but I
did find a nice link site to Irish step dance solo costumes and history of the
costume. Enjoy, leads to lots of other links.
| Irish Dancer
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| Ireland's Dance
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| The Celtic Dance |
| A shop devoted to the dresses. Get everything from a
competed dress, to a pre-embroidered high quality kit to just the designs for
the panels, Celtic and Celtic inspired.
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Web Picks for January / February
| Bissonnette on Costume: a Visual Dictionary of Fashion
| Wonderful set of exhibit photos that document front, back
and sides of the actual garments. Great for researching historical
garments. The collection has some nice items showing unusual uses of
colors and trims/ |
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http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/index.asp |
| Search by geographical region, time period or subject. |
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| The Costume Salon
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http://www.costumesalon.com |
| This is a rental company's pages that I recently
stumbled across. I know nothing of the company itself, but do love the
designs... especially her
fantasy pages.
Wonderful eye candy and design inspiration. |
| If you need a masquerade party now.. she has a wonderful
concept of "costume
party in a box" where she packs the whole thing from costumes to
decorations to games to menus. |
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Web Picks for November / December, 2002
| Godey's Lady's Book - the Sample Collection
| http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/contents.html |
| a wonderfully detailed collection of color
plates, patterns articles and more from Godey's Lady's
magazine 1855-1858. Also has links to other Godey's
magazine sites. |
| Hoop skirts were all the rage and this
magazine provides a wonderful peek into history. |
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| Antique Lace and Fabric
| http://www.antique-fashion.com/ |
| Karen Augusta's personal site for selling
very high quality antique clothing mainly from the 18th and
19th century. Even if your budget can't afford
it, it's a great place to look at good quality. She
has some designer pieces. |
| Also has a nice selection of links that
includes museums and educational resources. |
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Web Picks for September / October, 2002
| Castle Blood
| http://www.castleblood.com/ |
| Wonderful site for the Halloween creeps.
They're an east coast haunted mansion... and much more. |
| Haunt
Couture costumes for the serious Halloween Enthusiasts
and Haunted Attraction Performers |
| Haunt
Decor props - Wonderful detailed props to
"liven" up any party or haunted house. |
| Or just check out their wonderful costume scrapbooks
from previous haunts... |
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| Kristi Smart Designs
| http://www.kristismart.com/ |
| This is the web for ordering those fabulous
"Kristi Coats" that you've been seeing at
conventions and fantasy events: black, great swishing tails,
many buttons - a great jump off point for being creative
with shirts or your own embellishments. |
| The "civil war" coat come in
many, many sizes... far over the "standard" sizes
of regular costumes. |
| The Kristi Coats are becoming a cool addition
to anyone's costume wardrobe. |
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Web Picks for July / August, 2002
| Costume Connections
| http://www.costume-con.org |
| THE source for all things about Costume Con
from pictures of past cons to the latest bids for the
upcoming events |
| They've been doing an amazing amount of
updates lately. Many of the old con's now have a full
slide show of pictures. |
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| Dharma Trading Company
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Web Picks for May/June, 2002
| The
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Gallery Scene
| Explore the annual Art of Motion Picture
Costume Design web galley from FIDM.
| This year's show is now up! |
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| Catch views of their other collections |
| Note: this site does load slow, but so much
to look at when done. Some galleries can only be views
as video. |
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| Fashion-Era.com
| Fashion History, Costume, Clothing, Textiles
and Social History |
| Nice site for a basic overview of fashion
history... even thing right at your finger tips. Nice
and plentiful illustrations. |
| Check out the fashion crafts section as well
as a whole section of Fashion Tutorials. Great stuff I
haven't seen gather together elsewhere. |
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Web Picks for March / April, 2002
| The
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Gallery Scene
| Explore the annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design web galley
from FIDM.
| 2001's show |
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| Catch views of their other collections |
| Note: this site does load slow, but so much to look at when
done. Some galleries can only be views as video. |
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| Victoriana.Com
| Stepping back in time - everything Victorian |
| Their merchant directory is amazing, broken down by category
| The directory includes dance group, fabric sources, lace,
bed & breakfasts and so much more. |
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| Includes numerous article reprints from period sources. |
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| Sense & Sensibility
| Detailed site with sources, patterns and community focusing
"clothing w/ an old fashion feeling". Kid
friendly. |
| Everything you wanted to know about Titanic costumes, includes notes
on some originals.
| Contains pictures of the dresses from the movie |
| Follow their links for more recreations. |
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| Specialty eras: from Regency and Titanic era. |
| Large photo gallery of projects. |
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| Jamine Watson
| Personal site of the Jewelry Designer that created the magnificent
crowns, pendants and rings for The Lord of the Rings. |
| Detailed pictures of her work. |
| Also see some rare photos of her work from Xena. |
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| Purrfection Artistic Wearables
| Art to wear patterns from XS-5XL |
| Their Project section will give you more ideas that you have time for
- so many way to manipulate fabric. |
| Wonderful fabrics, stencils, notions and more to help you complete
your project. |
| Large photo Gallery of projects. |
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This page last updated:
07/27/09
(just added in April, 2001)
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