The Fashion and Textile Gallery

Useful Websites

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List of related websites for more sources of information:

General Galleries and Museums:

• www.museums.co.uk
  Helpful for finding UK museum sites
• www.vam.ac.uk
  Victoria & Albert Museum
• www.metmuseum.org
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Information about the collection and images of objects.
• www.lesartsdecoratifs/fr/francais/mode-et-textile
  Musee des Arts de la Mode et du Textile (Musee Galliera in Paris)
• www.embroiderersguild.org.uk/

Costume History:

• www.costumegallery.com
  A huge site, aimed at students, designers and reproducers of costume. Nice primary sources, e.g. 19th century magazines.
• www.costumes.org
  History of costume (no references), nice primary sources such as fashion plates.
• www.fashiondig.com
  Mainly about where to buy vintage 20th century clothing, but some good images (mostly unattributed) of 1960s fashion
• www.fashion-flashbacks.com
  Good information on 1960s, 1970s and 1980s fashion, also links to other sites and suggestions of useful books
• www.centuryinshoes.com
  Good pictures, also adverts from each decade of the twentieth century
• www.theglovecollection.org
  Introduction to the collections of historic gloves belonging to the Worshipful
• www.circavintageclothing.com.au
  Good for whats happening in the vintage clothing world in Victoria and NSW, book reviews
• www.vintagefashionguild.org
  "voice of vintage fashion", for vintage fashion professionals
• www.ulladulla.info/fhc/vicfashions.htm
  Victorian fashion in Australia

General Fashion:

• www.fashionangel.com
  Gateway to sites which have received the 'Angel of Fashion' award. Easily searchable site with links to sites on beauty, designers, magazines etc
• www.fashion.net
  Another easily searchable site with good links and sections on same areas as www.fashionangel.com/
• www.selvedge.org
  Online site for Selvedge magazine. A comprehensive resource for a wide audience of textile enthusiasts
• www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fashion
• www.australianfashioncouncil.com
  Australia's principal industry organisation for Australian fashion businesses
• www.tfia.com.au
  Trade organisation for Australain textile, clothing, footwear and fashion industries

Designers:

• www.firstview.com
  The most comprehensive site we have found on European and American designers. Photos from collections are particularly useful.

Miscellaneous:

• www.costumesociety.com
• www.livinghistory.co.uk
  For re-enactors
• www.gcreation.com.au/tafta
• www.embroiderersguild.com
• www.atasda.org.au
• www.teansw.com.au
• www.embroiderersguildvic.org
• www.embguildsa.org.au
• www.www.embroiderersguildwa.org.au
• www.embroiderersguildqld.org.au
• www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au
  To encourage the art of embroidery
• www.embroiderersact.org.au
• www.austlaceguild.org
  For all people interested in all forms of lace and lacemaking
• www.craft.search.com