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Tes: Staging Shakespeare: Costume Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides information about using resources from the Victoria and Albert Museum to learn about costuming and staging Shakespearean plays. It includes a downloadable PowerPoint lesson plan.
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Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
Leaf Group
E How: William Shakespeare Costume Ideas
This article by Boze Herrington focuses on ideas for costumes for Shakespeare productions. He offers background information on Shakepeare and the historical setting. He provides pictures of costumes and discusses costumes for commoners...
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Tes: Costume Design in His Dark Materials
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this National Theatre video clip, Jon Morrell talks about the process of designing costumes for His Dark Materials from the novel by Philip Pullman [3:11].
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Tes: Ppt on Costume Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PowerPoint presentation on Costume Design including its bases in text and vision, colors, and line and silhouette. A worksheet for students is also provided.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Costume Parade
Look at the parade of dogs dressed in costumes. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
TES Global
Tes: Designing Nativity Costumes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson on designing nativity costumes including details on using fabrics, colors, and decorations; it includes a downloadable PowerPoint and a Costume Designing Frame worksheet.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Halloween Costumes for Edgar and Andrew
Here is a story about Halloween. Two bunny brothers will choose costumes, and you get to try all the costumes on them.
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Renaissance Fair: Elizabethan Period Costumes
Very extensive guide to period costumes of the Elizabethan age. Offers color photographs of men's and women's clothing, patterns and tips for making the costumes, and a definition page with more pictures to illustrate terminology.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fire Procession Costume
Firemen were important people in Edo society. View pictures of their "costumes" and read why they were held in such high regard in this essay.
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Traditional Costumes From the Regions of Greece
This site has examples of "Authentic antique regional costumes," from several regions of Greece. Each region is represented with a picture and a detailed description of the costume.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Costumes of America
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Costumes of America, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Costumes of Europe
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Costumes of Europe, a nonfiction book for children.
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Elizabethan Costuming Page
This site from Drea Leed, author of "The Well-Dress'd Peasant: 16th Century Workingwoman's Dress", offers a detailed look at Elizabethan costumes, from the make-up, to the underclothing, to decorations and accessories.
California Digital Library
Escholarship Editions: Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians
An exhaustive discussion of Virginia Roediger's 1941 book, "Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama", that studies in depth the Pueblo Indians; their history, social...
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Central Washington University: Costume History
Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
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Mit:glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology
This extensive glossary explains the vocabulary relating to fashions of the 1700's. Includes links to visual examples.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Costume Institute: Search the Collection
This vast collection of historical garments and jewelry contains an inventory of over 34,000 items. Includes images, dates and important facts about each piece.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Rabbit Costumes [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of multiplication and division of fractions.
Kyoto Costume Institute
Kyoto Costume Institute: Digital Archives: Collections 1920s
Digital showcase of distinctive articles of women's clothing from the 1920s: coats, dresses, shoes, and undergarments.
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The Costume Gallery: A Year in Fashion: 1920
View ladies fashion from the flapper era. Some sections require a Library Card from The Costume Gallery.
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New Britain Museum of American Art: Costumes
An interesting way to study the history of American portraiture, by focusing on the clothing of those who sat for their portraits.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
By exploring historical accounts of events surrounding the Boston Tea Party, students learn about the sources and methods historians use to reconstruct what happened in the past. It includes extended websites for further research.
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