Amber : the urban beauty source
http://www.ambermag.com/
AmberMag is an online magazine devoted to beauty topics related to multicultural women, particularly those from of African, Caribbean and Latin origin, and products and techniques specifically suited to their hair and skin types and tones. The heading Adore contains sections on make-up, hair, skincare, body, and fragrance, with product reviews, news articles and practitioner profiles. The Adorn heading covers style and fashion. The Look of the Week section contains articles and videos designed to help the user achieve the desired look. An Experts section gives users the opportunity to email their questions to hair and beauty professionals, and a blog provides up to date beauty news. Visitors to the site are also invited to register for exclusive offers and resources.
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Basic clothing construction sew easy : pattern and fabric selection
http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1445.htm
This page is from the website of the Mississippi State University Extension System, which contains a database of documents relating to extension courses. This document is part of a course on creating your own clothes. It is concerned with the selection of pattern and fabric, and covers: things to consider before shopping or choosing a pattern; guidelines for correct and accurate body measurement; a body measurement chart corresponding to fashion pattern industry standards in the USA; tips on choosing a pattern; and fabric quality characteristics to bear in mind in your selection, such as grain, crease resistance, colourfastness, flaws, odour, and care requirements.
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Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/
Britannica.com is the website of the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica. Visitors to the site can freely search the main Encyclopaedia, the Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannia Concise Encyclopedia, plus a selection websites, video/media items, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus. A brief synopsis of articles from the Encyclopaedia is provided, with access to full-text available only to subscribers. The site can also be browsed, either alphabetically or via the World Atlas, timelines or subject browse facility.
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Centre for Research and Development (CRD) : Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/
The Centre for Research and Development website is run by the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts and Architecture. The centre was established in 1998 as a hub for researchers in architecture, design, performing arts and humanities. The site showcases the research work done at the centre, as well as advertising upcoming events, such as lectures and exhibitions taking place in the department. There is also one of the most comprehensive and useful architecture links pages on the internet, with a large number of interesting websites ranging from well known magazines to museums and unusual projects. There are also links pages for other disciplines, including digital resources, the visual arts, fashion, and a particularly thorough one for critical studies. The resource is provided by the CRD, and so it is advertising the most positive aspects of itself to encourage the enrolment of students, researchers and staff. However, it presents a generous amount of information from staff members' research portfolios, (accessed through the "research" page), that make it an interesting and informative site in its own right. In fact, this section is really an online gallery of design research projects and is therefore unusual and a good place for students to find inspiration for their own projects. The accompanying images and photographs are beautiful - indeed, the whole site, created by Cogapp, is attractive and clear to read and to use.
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Clothing, lingerie and apparel dictionary
http://www.clothingdictionary.com/
This American website is a clothing dictionary that contains definitions and links to examples of women's clothing, lingerie and fabrics. One can either search the site or browse in alphabetical order. There are also articles relating to clothing, lingerie and fabrics. The main focus of the website is on lingerie.
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Creative little soul
http://www.creativelittlesoul.com/
This is the website and blog of Creative Little Soul, a resource for developing creative skills and careers in the areas of photography, make-up, modelling and filmmaking. Each section contains articles and features. Under photography articles include understanding lenses, finding a model and websites every aspiring photographer needs to check out. Under filmmaking there is an article on the legal side of filming. There are also resources on how to run your business and a list of related books. One can also join the forum.
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Design Museum
http://www.designmuseum.org/
Published in two versions, Flash for full content and HTML with reduced content, this is the website for London's Design Museum, which claims to be one of the world's leading museums of modern and contemporary design and covers industrial design, fashion, architecture, graphics, and multimedia. The Design Museum provides design education resources, as well as workshops and visits for schools, FE, and HE. Teachers' packs can be downloaded in PDF format (which requires the use of an Adobe Acrobat Reader). The website has information about current exhibitions and future exhibitions. The Digital Design Museum section showcases chosen developments in design, such as 'A Century of Chairs', a history of chair design. The Design at the Design Museum section is an online archive of designers, architects, and design technology. Location, visitor, and membership information is also provided, along with the opportunity to become a supporter, individually as a patron, friend or benefactor, or as an organisation. There is a downloadable membership form in PDF format.
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Dexigner
http://www.dexigner.com/
Dexigner is a large design resource guide and directory, which is organised by subject, from 3D and advertising design to urban and Web design. Dexigner includes short news items from sections on product design, graphic design, fashion design, architecture, digital art and contemporary visual arts. There is also a database of designs, designers and design companies, as well as a list of current and forthcoming design events and competitions in the 'Agenda' section. A monthly newsletter, going back to October 2004 is also included. Dexigner can be searched by going to 'Start'.
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European fashion history
http://www.eupedia.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/547
Eupedia is an online resource guide to Europe, in English, produced by the Japanese website Japan Reference. The photo gallery contains images uploaded by registered members of the site. This particular section covers fashion history from the 15th century through to the late 19th century. The images here are generally portraits and details from other works of art. Several of the images focus on details such as headgear or hairstyles. Users should be aware of copyright issues involved in reproducing these images, and should use them only as a reference source.
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Fact monster cool stuff : fashion and dress
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0767725.html
This section of the Fact Monster site, published by Pearson Education, contains a number of articles on different aspects of fashion history. These range from timelines of the development of fabrics, and different forms of garments, to potted histories of footwear, e.g. the sneaker, and the history of jeans. There is also a definition of haute couture, and a brief history of cosmetics.
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Fashion-flashbacks : exploring retro style
http://www.fashion-flashbacks.com/
Fashion-flashbacks is an American website that "provides resources to vintage fashion consumers while promoting original retro artifacts from the sixties and seventies". There is a section on student resources, which contains information about fashion schools and departments worldwide. Fashion by decade 1900-2002 is a resource containing websites and book and video recommendations for each decade.
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Fashionable history : scholarly study on the history of fashion
http://online.sfsu.edu/~kendrav/fashion/
This website was compiled by Kendra Van Cleave, a librarian in the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University. The site "is designed to serve as an online portal for researchers interested in fashion history". There are four sections: journals (with links to journals relating to fashion history), archives, libraries and museums, bibliographies and research resources and academic programmes.
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FashionFinders
http://www.fashionfinders.co.uk/
The Fashion Finders website is essentially an online fashion shop. The big difference from other online shops is that it focuses on new independent designers and final year Graduate collections. The website offers a number of services. Designers are able to showcase and promote their work, and can upload CVs and portfolios to a designer directory and an online Look Book. These Look Books are passworded and the images encrypted, to ensure intellectual property security. Potential buyers and employers must subscribe in order to access them. There are profiles of Independent Labels and designers, and services to businesses also include a Source Directory, and Creatives Directory containing allied professions such as modelling. The website also hosts the Front Page Magazine online, containing fashion related articles.
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Fashionmission.nl
http://www.fashionmission.nl/
Fashionmission.nl is a fashion links database created in the Netherlands. It "maintains a highly selective list of links in the fields of: fashion, style, beauty, lifestyle, trends, travel and design." Links are divided into categories such as: fashion designers (mainly independent, boutique designers); beauty; runway; fashion and style blogs; trends; and history of fashion. One can view new links and the most visited links. It is also possible to subscribe to the newsletter. There is a link to the news section located at the bottom of the home page.
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Harper's Bazar : a repository of fashion, pleasure & instruction
http://harpersbazaar.victorian-ebooks.com/index.html
The magazine Harper's Bazar was originally published in 1867 in New York. It's content was fashion based and mainly aimed at the upper- middle class Victorian lady, and gave access to the American reader, to fashions from Europe, particularly those from the pages of the German publication 'Bazar'. Victoriana.com has here published an online ebook version of the first issue of the magazine from November 1867, with scanned images of actual pages of the publication, and searchable text. Fashion items covered in this edition include gentlemen's fashion, fall bonnets, children's clothing and New York fashions.
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Internet resources for fashion and beauty
http://www.intute.ac.uk/supportdocs/fashion.pdf
Internet Resources for Fashion and Beauty is a PDF file of Intute: Arts and Humanities' subject booklet for fashion and beauty students, teachers, researchers and librarians. Published in March 2007 as a short A5 booklet, the document provides details of some of the most useful Internet websites, covering all aspects of fashion and beauty, including accessories; costume and clothing; fashion design and fashion designers; fashion shows and fashion weeks; fashion history; the fashion industry; fashion magazines; fashion photography; footwear; textiles for fashion; trends and forecasting; beauty and holistic therapy; beauty news and trends; body modification; cosmetic and beauty products; cosmetic science; and hair and make-up. A short description of each featured resource is provided. The document is illustrated with images from some of the websites listed.
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Intute : Arts and Humanities
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Intute: Arts and Humanities is one of the four information subject groups of Intute. It provides a free online guide to Internet resources relevant to teaching and research in the arts and humanities. In collaboration with subject specialists, the subject group finds, evaluates and describes resources for the study of: English and other modern languages and literature; history; archaeology; classics; religion; philosophy; architecture; communications, media and culture; design; fashion and beauty; music and the performing arts; and visual arts. Intute: Arts and Humanities was formed in July 2006, through the merging of the former Resource Discovery Network (RDN) hubs, Artifact and the Humbul Humanities Hub.
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Karen Augusta antique lace and fashion
http://www.antique-fashion.com/
This is the website of Karen Augusta, a dealer in antique vintage clothing. Although this is a commercial website, it would be of interest to fashion students as a useful costume history resource. Under shop, one can view the current catalogue containing ladieswear, menswear, childrenswear, special events costumes, regional costumes, lace and trims and accessories. Each entry contains images and details about the item such as materials, provenance, condition, measurements and comments. The section Museum Archive is a gallery of images and details of rare or historically significant vintage clothing, accessories, textiles and lace. There is also a links section.
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Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project
http://lexisproject.arts.manchester.ac.uk/
This is the website of the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project, hosted by the University of Manchester. The Project looks at the relationships between cloth and clothing and the language and cultural changes of medieval Britain. The website contains an outline of the project aims and mission which can be downloaded as a PDF document or Word Document. There are biographies of the project staff, an overview of the research scope and the projected Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles, a bibliography of related reading sources, and a list of news and events related to the project. A gallery of images covers Clothing, Cloth, Statues, Figures and Ornaments, showing actual artefacts, reconstructions and contemporary images from the Middle Ages. The website is searchable by keyword. There are also links to theManchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies website, or MANCASS, and the Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion website, or DISTAFF.
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National Museum of American History (NMAH) : clothing and accessories
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subject_detail.cfm?key=32&colkey=
This section of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) site contains selected items of clothing and accessories from the museum's online collections. This page also contains relevant links to other parts of the museum site, such as a history of American sweatshops, or Hispanic designers, and the Costume Collection of women's dresses. By clicking on each item they can be viewed in detail and can also lead to other related information and items from the museum.
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New Mexico State University : Clothing publication listing
http://cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_c/
This page is part of the website of New Mexico State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics. The page contains a list of the Colleges publications on clothing construction. These publications are available to read or download either as HTML pages or as PDF documents. The topics covered include: sewing machine selection, use and maintainance; sewing techniques qnd tips; garment construction; patterns; colour; measurement, fit and sizes; styles and suitability; fabric care and maintenance. There are also detiled instructions on specific parts of garments such as: Sleeve plackets and bands; Collars; patch pockets; buttonholes; fasteners; waistbands; hems and facings.
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PatternReview.com
http://sewing.patternreview.com/
The Pattern Review website exists as a forum for sewers to share experiences and skills and to collaborate on and discuss projects. Most of the site features are free, but require users to register free. Other content is only available to paying members. The website contains a Knowledge base of links to other sites or to comments on discussion boards. An online shop sells patterns and CDs. A number of online sewing classes, tips and techniques, and sewing podcasts are available to paying members. There is a large collection of reviews on the website covering: sewing patterns; sewing machines; sewing supplies; books; classes; websites; events and exhibitions; and fabrics.
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Pockets
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/pockets/
This website was produced by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in collaboration with the AHRC-funded 'history of pockets' project based at Winchester School of Art. It outlines the history of the woman's tie-on pocket - an historically obscure but once widespread item of clothing. The website has information about how they were worn, how they developed over time and what was kept in them. As well as related material, such as paintings and historical references, there are also digital images and descriptions of the tie-on pockets held in the museum's collection.
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Sew Tessuti
http://tessuti.blogspot.com/
The Sew Tessuti website is a blog by Colette Guanta of Tessuti Fabrics, a shop stocking fine fabrics, in Sydney, Australia. The blog contains information about the fabric shop and its stock, but also has regular postings on new fabrics, fabric reviews, pattern reviews and descriptions, fashion trends and news, and sewing hints and techniques. The blog has links to the Tessuti Fabric website and online shop, links to websites with sewing tips, pattern websites, other sewing blogs and inspirational websites. An archive of postings goes back to 2007, and visitors are invited to sign up for a free email newsletter.
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Sewing divas
http://thesewingdivas.wordpress.com/
The Sewing Divas website is a blog created by three fashion and sewing enthusiasts to share fashion news, trends, sewing tips, experience and expertise. Postings cover categories such as: accessories; couture sewing; couture techniques; designer inspirations; fashion designing; fabric; fashion; knitting; notions; patterns; sewing library, tutorials and vintage sewing. Postings often contain detailed photographic images and diagrams. A postings archive goes back to May 2006. There are links to other blogs by the authors, related blogs, sewing forums and suppliers’ websites. As well as being able to browse by category the blog can also be searched by keyword. Visitors are invited to sign up for an RSS feed.
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