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"A Central Location on the Web for Fashion and Costume since 1996."

Owner: Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier
Chesterfield, Virginia, USA

Please meet our "Ladies of Fashion" below who will tour you through the 11 areas of The Costume Gallery Websites. Also you may click on one of our menu above to navigate our websites. We host over 35,000 web pages, 70,000 images, and two databases. Our websites vastly covers the history of the fashion / costume / textile industries. Our "Ladies" below to begin your tour through our websites.

Many thanks to over 37 million visitors to The Costume Gallery Websites since June 1996. Currently, our visitors are representing 140 countries per month.

1996 - 2009
CELEBRATING 13 YEARS ON THE WEB!!!

RESEARCH LIBRARY:


A Year in Fashion

Online complete period fashion publications, including articles, images, catalogs, and books.

Click below view the Table of Contents for specific years:

REGENCY FASHIONS

 1804
 1807

 1812
 1814

 1828

VICTORIAN FASHIONS
 1838

 1841
 1847
 1849

 1856
 1857

 1862
 1863
 1864
 1865
 1867
 1868

 1870
 1872
 1877

 1880
 1882
 1886
 1889

 1893
 1894
 1895
 1896
 1897
 1899

 1901

EDWARDIAN FASHIONS
 1902
 1908

1910s FASHIONS
 1910
 1911
 1912
 1918

1920s FASHIONS
 1920
 1921
 1922
 1923

LIBRARY BOOKS ONLINE:

 1911 Sewing Manual

 19th Century French Peasants

 1880s: Handbook of German Dress

 1868: Corsets & Crinoline Fashion History

 1911: Women & Labor

 1922: Color Harmony & Dress

 Hairdressers' Manuals

  • 1899
  • 1911

     Etiquette Books

  • 1814
  • 1877
  • 1882
  • 1921
  • Who wore this or that, it is all in the Library.

    The Library is dedicated to our online articles and resources. Over 4,500 webpages of period fashion articles, catalogs, books, photgraphs and countless images to access. To subscribe to our online Library click HERE. To see a listing of the Years in Fashion that we have on this site, look to your left.

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    Fashion & Costume History Slideshows
    22 Slideshows with over 1,400 photos

    Our Lastest Costume Slideshows

    Click here to view the Balticon photos

    Balticon: May 2009

    Click here to view the Costume Con photos

    Costume Con: May 2009
    260 photos!!!

    Click here to view the Costume Con photos

    Showgirls' Costumes
    Backstage Tour

    260 photos!!!

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    FASHION FOTODATE

    Service where you send us your old family photos via email and we date them according to the fashions worn in them. Great for the genealogist!!!!!

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    Click here to visit the COSTUME CLASSROOM.

    The Costume Classroom is where you can take online classes about costume.

     Give the gift of knowledge!!! You can give a class or a Library Subscription as a gift to a family member or friend. Christmas, birthdays, anniversary, Mother's Day, or Valentines! It is a gift that gives forever!

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    Patterns, products, vintage clothes, oh my!

    Product Palace has businesses that provide products and services related to the costume.

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    We can make this or that.

    Designer's Hall contains Websites owned by costume designers.

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    Let's have fun with fashions.

    The Courtyard is a place to have fun with costume.

    OUR SPONSORS
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    Halloween Costumes

    Halloween Costumes

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    for a great price at CostumeKingdom.com

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    Affordable costumes at Halloween Costumes.

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    COSTUME CLASSROOM
    ONLINE CLASSES:

    Summer Semester
    2009:
    Registration open now!

  • Class opens: June 15
  • Ends: Aug. 31
  • Last day to enter class: July 31

    Classes are self-paced and taken completely online.

     Costume Analysis of Four Films Set in 1912-1914

     Elizabethan Glove Making: Make your own pair of gloves

     19th Century Parasols: Their History, Construction, and Restoration

     Making a Late 18th Century Wardrobe: Caraco Jacket

     Making a Late 18th Century Wardrobe: Ladies Strapless Stays

     Making a Late 18th Century Wardrobe: Pet-en-l'air or Robe à la Française

     IN THE LIBRARY

    Click to go to A Brush with History: Vintage Hairstyles

     A Brush with History: Vintage Hairstyles

     History of Hairstyles

    PLACES TO PURCHASE COSTUMES
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    Anytime Halloween Costumes


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    buycostumes.com

  • All contents of the websites associated with The Costume Gallery Website are protected by copyright laws. Questions??? contact: HERE

    The Costume Gallery Websites, © 1996-2009:

    The Costume Gallery | Costume Research Library | Costume Classroom
    Fashion Designers of Their Time | Costume Encyclopedia | Costume Slideshows
    Fashion Color Database | Costume, Fashion & Textile Dictionary | pasthairstyles.com

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