This category is where sites about information about costumes, how to make and alter them, collecting and collectors.
Recommended Resources
Offers the widest selection of costumes for all occasions/celebrations for women, men, kids and infants. The website also offers a wide selection of party supplies and other essentials including masks, wigs and hats. There are also decorations and props as well as mascot costumes. You can also dress up your pets with their offered pets costumes.
http://www.buycostumes.com
Official website of The Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection, which provides digital images of the collection of costumes.
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/digital/
Carries a wide selection of costumes and accessories catering to children and adults. Includes a complete costume database, sizing chart and a product search index.
http://www.costumecraze.com
The Costume Gallery is one of the Internet's best and longest running databases about costume and fashion. You can access more than fifteen thousand webpages and over forty five thousand images from this website. The site also has a research library section if you want to conduct research.
http://www.costumegallery.com/
Education and research association for apparel. Find clothing and textile collections, exhibitions, conferences, news, opportunities and more.
http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/
The Costumer's Manifesto is an Internet directory dedicated to costumes. You can find advice on how to create your own costumes here and how to purchase costumes. Whether you want to purchase hats, military uniforms or discuss costumes with others on the Internet, this website has plenty to offer.
http://www.costumes.org/
Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild
The Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild is an organization of those in the San Francisco area who enjoy making and wearing costumes. You can find out where to buy patterns online and find sewing classes in the Bay Area. The website also has tips for where to rent costumes.
http://www.gbacg.org/
Website sells pirate costumes, including men's and women's costumes in all styles and sizes, along with pirate hats, wigs, and boots.
http://www.mrpiratecostumes.com/
The historic costume and textiles collection of Ohio State University is a historical information website. You can read about the collections highlights on this site. You can also find out about the galleries hours on this site. There are also special advice articles covering car topics such as "how to keep your heirloom textiles healthy."
http://costume.osu.edu/
Website offers scary costume ideas and allows one to shop for scary costumes for kids and adults, including costumes of movie characters, vampires, Gothic attire, and ghostly brides.
http://www.scarycostumeideas.com/
An online resource about how to look sexiest in sexy costumes. Find lots of sizing tips and information about how to choose a sexy costume. Shop for the most popular in role play and sexy Halloween costumes.
http://sexycostumeguide.com/
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the collection highlights, find out where the collection is in the museum, learn about special exhibitions, publications available and more.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8
University of Hawaii - Costume Collection
The University of Hawaii presents an historic costume collection. Find out about the Clothing and Textile program, what you can learn and the research that you can do.
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/costume/
