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Welcome to The Costume Gallery. You might want to use the bar above to navigate our site. Don't forget to bookmark us!

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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 nine main areas of The Costume Gallery websites. We host over 15,000 web pages, 45,000 images, and two databases of fashion and costume history. Click on one of our "Ladies" below to begin your tour.
Many thanks to over 37 million visitors to The Costume Gallery since January 1998. Currently, our visitors are representing 140 countries per month.

1996 - 2008

CELEBRATING 12 YEARS
ON THE WEB!!!

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to see
Library Updates

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:

1804
1807

1812
1814

1828

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
1902
1908

1910
1911
1912
1918

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

The Library is dedicated to our online articles and resources. Over 3,600 webpages of period fashion articles, catalogs, books 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.

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!!!!!

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!

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

Designer's Hall contains Websites owned by costume designers.

The Courtyard is a place to have fun with costume.

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COSTUME CLASSROOM
ONLINE CLASSES:

Winter/Spring Semester
2008:
Registration open now!

Class Begins: Jan. 20

Ends: April 30

Last day to enter class: Mar. 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 � la Fran�aise

IN THE LIBRARY

A Brush with History: Vintage Hairstyles

History of Hairstyles

LIBRARY BOOKS ONLINE:

Hairdressers' Manuals

1899

1911

Etiquette Books

1814

1877

1882

1921

PLACES TO PURCHASE COSTUMES

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

© The Costume Gallery, 1996-2007. © Costume Research Library, 1996-2007.
© Costume Classroom, 2001-2007. © A Year in Fashion 2000-2007.
© Fashion Designers of Their Time, 2004-2007. © Costume Encyclopedia, 2004-2007.
© Fashion Color Database, 1996-2007. © Fashion Foto-date, 2000-2007.
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