MUSEUMS
AND COLLECTIONS FOR COSUTUME
AND FASHION
Texas:
The Texas
Fashion Collection
http://www.art.unt.edu/tfc/
Consists of approximately 14,000 garments and accessories created by leading
designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Museum
of Fine Arts Houston
http://mfah.org/fabfre.html
The collection currently has about 1,500 garments and accessories, primarily
consisting of twentieth-century designs.
Texas First
Ladies Gown Collection
http://www.twu.edu/twu/exhibits/firstladies/default.html
A virtual exhibit of the DAR museum of inaugural gowns. The collection
was presented in 1940 to Texas Woman's University by the Texas Daughters
of the American Revolution. The exhibit has gowns of first ladies of the
Republic of Texas, the state of Texas and the United States.
United
States:
Costume
Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=8
The world-renowned Costume Institute possesses more than 75,000 costumes
and accessories from seven centuries and five continents. The website
includes an extensive image gallery.
Costumes
and Textiles , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http:/www.lacma.org/Masterpieces/Costumes.htm
A collection of more than fifty thousand objects. The collection is almost
equally balanced between textiles and dress and is recognized worldwide
for its depth and breadth -- from pre-Columbian Latin America to contemporary
couture.
Fashion Institute
of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles
http://www.lacma.org/art/perm_col/costumes/costume2.htm
The 10,000 piece collection consists of significant clothing from the
late 19th century to the present day, including theater and film costume,
the comprehensive Rudi Gernreich Collection, the California Historical
Society Collection and the Hollywood Costume Collection, the later two
on long-term loan.
Museum of the
City of New York
http:/www.mcny.org/Collections/costume/costume.htm
As one of the earliest and strongest historically-based collections of
clothing in this country, The Costume Collection, preserves over 25,000
garments and accessories worn by New Yorkers dating from the mid-eighteenth
century to the present.
Philadelphia
Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/best/home.html
Online exhibition of 200 of the museum's costume collection. The exhibition
features costumes from the Middle East and Asia as well as Europe and
United States.
Beverly Birks Couture Collection
http://www.camrax.com/pages/birks0.htm
A large private collection of garments and accessories by leading international
designers. Includes a database that indexes about 1,000 entries and some
800 images.
Cornell Costume Collection
http://www.human.cornell.edu/txa/cu_costume.cfm
The Cornell Costume Collection includes fashions from the 18th Century
to the present (including ethnic fashions). Highlights of the collection
are included in a searchable database.
Chicago Historical
Society: The Hope B. McCormick Costume Center
http://www.chicagohs.org/Collections/COSTUME.html
The Hope B. McCormick Costume Center houses an extensive costume collection
of more than 50,000 pieces. Paralleling the growth of Chicago, the collection
of women's, men's, and children's clothing and accessories is particularly
strong in materials from the late 19th century to the present.
Kent
State University Museum
http://dept.kent.edu/museum/
Kent State University Museum contains an extensive collection of fashions
from the Jerry Silverman Line of women's clothing, and personal collection
of historic and international costumes, decorative arts, painting, and
furnishings.
International:
Costume
Museums in Europe http://www.marquise.de/en/misc/museums.shtml
A comprehensive directory of European Costume Museums with digitized illustrations
of historical costume and sewing patterns from the seventeenth century
to the early nineteenth century.
Victoria
and Albert Museum, London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
The
Costume Museum, Japan
http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/
The Costume Museum has a variety of garments and accessories worn throughout
Japan's history. Includes a selection of images from the collection.
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto Canada
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/non.html
Over 10,000 shoes are in the permanent collection. Artifacts on exhibit
range from Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut
crushing clogs and Elton John’s platforms.
Museum of Costume, Bath
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/
The Museum of Costume has a substantial collection of both men and women’s
fashionable dress from the 18th century.
German Historical
Museum, Berlin
http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/sammlungen/alltag2/textilien/
The collection of Clothing and Textiles consists of approximately 8,000
pieces of clothing dating from the middle of the 18th century up to the
present.
This site is maintained by Myra Walker.
