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• Angel of Fashion
  A directory of Fashion sites that have been given the "angel of fashion" award.
• The Costume Gallery
  This commercial site by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier provides thousands of links to fashion and costume Web pages.
• The Costume Page
  One of the best starting places for almost any kind of fashion information.
• CJ Lutz Fashion WWWeb Page
  An excellent set of links to fashion information on the Internet, including college and university programs, an online bookstore, media resources, designer pages and newsgroups.
• InfoMat: The Largest Fashion Industry Search Engine
  Locates businesses related to the fashion industry. Categories include associations, buying offices, designer collections, dresses, eveningwear, notions & trim, sales reps, sportswear, textiles, and buyer-to-buyer exchanges.
• Yahoo: Fashion and Beauty Sites
  Yahoo identifies websites for apparel companies, designers, fashion shows, electronic magazines and other useful resources.

Textiles/Preservation

• Art Conservation: A Guide to Internet Resources
  University of Delaware Library Web page with links to sites related to art conservation.
• FiberLinks.com
  FiberLinks.com offers Web links to fiber information organizations and governmental agencies.
• Home Textiles Today
  An online Cahners publication that provides links to textile-related sites, as well as news articles on the industry. Gives sales information for many textile retailers.
• Tex.in: Textile & Apparel WWW Database
  Links to information about a wide range of textile fibers contributed by textile industry researchers.
• Textile Society of America
  Founded in 1987, the Textile Society of America serves the interests of textile specialists. The TSA website provides information on membership, symposia, publications and job postings, as well as links to textile-related sites.
• Textile Source
  Links to lists of textile books, trade publications, textile companies, and websites.
• Yahoo: Textiles
  Yahoo identifies textile-related sites.

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• University of Delaware Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies
  The Department's website provides descriptions of its programs and courses, as well as opportunities for student internships and travel.
• Peterson's Education Center
  Information about educational opportunities at all levels, including summer programs, distance learning, and study abroad.
• CJ Lutz: Schools Fashion, Textiles, Costume
  This site offers links to descriptions of programs for the study of fashion, textiles and costume.

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• The Beverley Birks Couture Collection
  A large collection of haute couture, including accessories and 19th-Century fashion prints from the Journal des Dames et des Modes.
• Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  Images of selected costumes from the exhibition are available on the website, along with audio descriptions. To access the audio descriptions, users need to have Real Player.
• The Costume Gallery
  This commercial website provides thousands of links to fashion and costume pages on the Internet.
• The CTAHR Historic Costume Collection (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Move to the bottom of the Web page and click on "Exhibitions" to see color images.
• Cornell Costume and Textile Collection (Cornell University)
  The website offers an online catalog of the collections with images.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  Images from the LACMA permanent collection. "The collection encompasses a broad range of clothing, textiles, and accessories from pre-Columbian Latin America to contemporary couture."
• The Costume Page: The Study of Costume, Reference Works & Museums
  Links are provided to museums with costume exhibitions.
• The Historic Costume and Textiles Collection (Ohio State University)
  Images are provided from past exhibitions at the Snowden Galleries, Ohio State University.
• The History of Costume
  The History of Costume was published by Braun and Schneider in Munich from 1861 to 1880. Access to the many color images is provided.
• The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum has "more than 75,000 costumes and accessories from seven centuries and five continents." View selected highlights from the collection.
• Saundra Ros Altman's: Past Patterns
  A commercial site selling historical clothing patterns sized to fit today's people. Offers interesting images and information about clothing through the years.
• Selections from the Paris Music Hall Collection (University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Library)
  "The Paris Music Hall Collection comprises over 6,000 original renderings of costume designs and 1,000 original renderings of curtain designs for the music halls of Paris from 1920-1938." The library acquired the collection in 1968.
• Texas Fashion Collection (University of North Texas)
  Funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, this website will provide images of and information about its fashion collection via the Internet. At present, it offers a description of the collection and selections from four major designers: Cristobal Balenciaga, Hubert Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta and Norman Norell.

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• American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA)
  The AAFA is a national trade organization for apparel and footwear manufacturers.
• Color Marketing Group (CMG)
  The CMG is an association for color and design professionals. Members examine color and design trends in the marketplace.
• The Costume Society of America
  Consult this website for information on the Costume Society of America. Tables of contents are provided for Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America Dress (1975 to present).
• The Costume Society
  The Costume Society (Great Britain) encourages and supports the study of all aspects of clothing.
• International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA)
  The ITAA is an international organization for textile and apparel scholars that aims to advance excellence in scholarship and education in the textiles, apparel, and merchandising industries.
• National Retail Federation
  "The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world's largest retail trade association with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services."
• Textile Society of America
  Founded in 1987, the Textile Society of America serves the interests of textile specialists. The TSA website provides information on membership, symposia, publications and job postings, as well as links to textile-related sites.
• The Organization of Black Designers
  The OBD is dedicated to promoting the visibility and addressing the needs of African-American design professionals in graphics design/visual communications, interior design, fashion design and industrial design. Its website provides information on the organization and a job board.

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• Yahoo: Fashion and Beauty Magazines
  Yahoo's list of links to electronic fashion magazines.
• Advertising Age
  AdAge.com is limited to today's top stories.
• California ApparelNews.net
  An online publication with news articles on the fashion and apparel industry.
• Elle.com
• fashion net
• FashionWindows
• firstVIEW
  A large collection of fashion collection images. Some images can be accessed without a fee. Others require a password.
• Home Textiles Today
  An online Cahners publication that provides links to textile-related sites and market research facts as well as news articles on the industry.
• Just-style
  Apparel merchandising news, including job ads.
• Prêt à Porter Paris
  Click on English at the top of the page (right side).
• Stores (National Retail Federation)
  Current and past issues of this online publication. Includes earnings and sales information of the "100 Top Retailers", "Top 100 Specialty Stores", and the "Top 200 Global Retailers."
• Style.com (Vogue)
• TextileWeb.com
  Current textile industry news for professionals.

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• Yahoo: Fashion Designers
  The site provides links to fashion designer sites.
• firstVIEW
  A large collection of fashion collection images. Some images can be accessed without a fee. Others require a password.
• Pierre Cardin
• Chanel
• Liz Claiborne
• Eileen Fisher
• Jean-Paul Gaultier
• Tommy Hilfiger
• Donna Karan
• Yves Saint Laurent
• Vera Wang

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• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (Washington, D.C.)
  “The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) is the national membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the art and historic artifacts of our cultural heritage for future generations.”
• American Textile Manufacturers Institute
  Provides information for American textile manufacturers.
• FabricLink.com
  A commercial website that provides information about fabrics and fabric retailers.
• Fiberlinks.com
  Fiberlinks.com offers Web links to fiber information organizations and governmental agencies.
• Guidelines for the Care of Textiles (Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.)
• Hanging System for Textiles in Sturdy Condition (Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.)
• Home Textiles Today
  An online Cahners publication that provides links to textile-related sites, as well as news articles on the industry. Gives sales information for many textile retailers.
• How Do I Store Antique Textiles at Home? (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• OTEXA: Office of Textiles and Apparel (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
• TexConsTextiles Conservation Discussion List (Stanford University)
• Tex.in: Textile & Apparel WWW Database
  Links to information about a wide range of textile fibers contributed by textile industry researchers.
• The Textile Society of America
  Founded in 1987, the Textile Society of America serves the interests of textile specialists. The TSA website provides information on membership, symposia, publications and job postings as well as links to textile-related sites.
• Textile Source
  Links to lists of textile books, trade publications, textile companies, and websites.

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• Costume and Textiles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
  The LACMA collection has broad range of clothing, textiles, and accessories from pre-Columbian Latin America to contemporary couture. The website contains images of selected items from the collection.
• Heavens' Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles (Hong Kong Museum of Art)
  The site provides descriptions and beautiful color images of Chinese textiles.
• The Koelz Textile Collection of the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology
  A extensive collection of colorful images and descriptions of textiles from South and Central Asia, and Iran.
• The Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
  The Museum's collections represent the textile traditions of non-Western cultures. The site provides descriptions of current and upcoming exhibitions, as well as a calendar of events.
• Symmetry & Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
  Images and descriptions of oriental carpets from a 1996 exhibition at the Textile Museum.
• Weaving Art Museum and Research Institute Exhibitions (California)
  The website offers images and descriptions of exhibitions. Two exhibitions presented are Archaeology and Anatolian Slit-Tapestry Weaving (August 1998) and Soumak and Kelim Weaving of the Caucasus (January 1999).
• When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles (The Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art)
  Images from 1997 exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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• The Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online
  Links to online bibliographies, dictionaries and electronic fashion information.
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
  An A to Z online resource with links to information about clothing, costume, and fashion.
• The Textile Dictionary
  A useful online dictionary of textile terminology. Choose terms from four categories: standard cotton fabrics; silk and silk-imitation fabrics; worsted, wool and hair fabrics; and other cellulose fabrics.
• Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume (ICOM International Committee for the Museums and Collections of Costume)
  Defines terms recommended for costume cataloging.

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