These links are meant to be used as study-aids, and are not research-appropriate unless sponsored by a museum or educational institution. Many costume historical sites are a labor of love, run by hobbyists, not PhDs. Get what you can, but maintain skepticism!

Pre-historic

• Pre-historic Exeter
• Clothing worn by the Iceman

Ancient Middle East

• Royal Tombs of Ur Exhibit
• The British Museum: Mesopotamia
• The Costume Gallery's Mesopotamia links
• Ancient Egypt
• The British Museum: Ancient Egypt
• Pharaonic Egypt
• Flax and Linen
• Egyptian Culture

Crete and Greece

• Minoan Costume
• The Met: Ancient Greek Dress
• Clothing of Ancient Greek Women
• Greek Costume through the Centuries
• Ancient Greek Fashion

Etruria and Rome

• Augustus: Images of Power
• Virtual Roma
• How to make a toga
• Roman Costume
• The History of Etruria

The Middle Ages

• Carolingian Europe 700-1000 BC
• Europe 1000-1200 BC
• 13th c. Europe
• 14th c. Europe
• 15th c. Northern Europe
• 15th c. Female Flemish Dress
• The Cloisters at The Met
• Holdings of the Morgan Library & Museum
• Costume in Late Medieval Western Europe
• Medieval Clothing Links
• Article: The Reliability of Art as Costume History Source

The Renaissance

• Florence and Central Italy 1400-1600
• The Renaissance
• The Chopine
• The Medici Archive Project
• 15th Century Southern Europe
• Early 16th Century Europe
• Mid 16th Century Europe
• Late 16th Century Europe

The 17th Century

• The Fontange
• Early Baroque Costume
• Extant 17th Century Costume
• Extant Mantuas
• The Works of Franz Hals
• 17th Century Men's Fashion
• 17th Century Shoes and Boots
• 17th Century Women's Fashion Plates
• Mid 17th Century Europe
• Drawings by Wenceslaus Hollar

The 18th Century

• 18th Century Art Resources
• 18th Century Europe
• 18th Century Fans
• Pockets
• African American Clothing
• Extant Clothing at Kent State
• Extant Clothing at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
• Rococo Clothing
• Looking at 18th Century Clothing
• 18th Century Nightgowns
• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century
• Early 18th Century Europe
• Mid 18th Century Europe
• Late 18th Century Europe I
• Late 18th Century Europe II
• Boy's Waistcoat, c. 1720

19th Century Zeitgeist

• American History
• U.S. History Links
• Art
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• City Life
• Inventions
• Sweatshops
• Sewing Machinery
• Slave Clothing
• Textile Industry
• Early Industrialization

Directoire/Empire

• Extant Costume at Kent State
• Regency Costume
• Paintings at the Louvre
• Regency Jewelry
• Regency Neckcloth
• The Costume Gallery
• Hats: 1800-1817
• Neo-classical Costume Resources

Romantic & Crinoline Periods

• Godey's Lady's Book
• Norwich Shawls
• Tintypes and Daguerrotypes
• The Daguerrian Society

Late 19th Century and the Bustle

• Art Nouveau
• 1870s and 1880s
• Thorstein Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption

20th Century Zeitgeist

• Timeline
• Art
• Dress, Identity, and Art
• Inventions
• WWI
• Bauhaus
• Art Deco
• World War II
• The Vietnam War
• The Gulf War
• Retail History
• Ready-made Clothing

1900 - 1920

• Paul Poiret
• Fortuny

1920s - WWII

• Madeleine Vionnet
• Coco Chanel
• Elsa Schiaparelli
• The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy
• Rationing in the 40s
• The Zoot Suit
• The War Production Board
• Wartime Fabric Restrictions

1947 - 1960

• Teenage Fashion
• Manufactured Fibers
• The New Look
• The History of Nylons

1960s and 1970s

• 1960s
• Mods and Rockers
• Hippies
• 1968
• Punks
• Vivienne Westwood
• 1977

Costume Research

• Sources for Research
• Clemens Dress
• Drexel Digital Museum Project

Costume Collections

• The Bata Shoe Museum
• Beverly Birks
• Cornell University
• Drexel University
• Fashion Museum, Bath
• The Getty
• Kent State University
• The Louvre
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of the City of New York
• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of American History
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Texas Fashion Collection
• The Victoria and Albert Museum