This in-depth collection offers images and background information about fashions and accessories from the 1700's to the present day.

The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German design and fashion sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German design and fashion, home and furniture designs from Germany, German designs of...

Explore more fashion illustrations of the early 20th century in this online art gallery of lithographs. Includes the work of noted French illustrator George Barbier.

Learn about Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli at this animated site from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

100 years of fashions, 1840-1940, are showcased in this collection of images. Included are close-up photographs that detail much of the intricate work produced during the Victorian Period.

Penny the Penguin owns a fashion store. Let's find out what people wear at Antarctica. Uses popups.

Sarah's mum runs a fashion store. Join Sarah and play some fun math games in the clothing store.

Explore 1920s fashion with advice on how to dress for a variety of social situations for both men and women.

Learn about the history of Western fashion from this online exhibition of footwear that traces the development of shoes from ancient times through the twentieth century.

An encyclopedia of fashion and clothing throughout the ages, from prehistoric to modern times. To find something, click on a letter of the alphabet, a time period, or type a search term.

This is the full text of the novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by David Graham Phillips; published in 1909 and represents the classical example of the muckraker tradition. The author depicts Washington's high society. The...

On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at a fashion store. Those skills include creating number patterns, making a number sentence to represent a word problem, and making a table of...

View ladies fashion from the flapper era. Some sections require a Library Card from The Costume Gallery.

This extensive glossary explains the vocabulary relating to fashions of the 1700's. Includes links to visual examples.

Explore fashion from the 1700's with the slideshow. Includes a discussion of popular styles, textiles and silhouettes.

Highlights of Western styles of clothing, in timeline format, inspire us with the vastness and novelty of human creation. Examples span 250 years of changing styles in fashion, with the earliest articles dating from the eighteenth century.

Opened in 1959, the Phoenix Art Museum contains nearly 16,000 works, with collections from around the world (American, Asian, European, Latin American, and Western American); along with Fashion Design and the Thorne Miniature Rooms as...

Students teams design and build shoe prototypes that convert between high heels and athletic shoes. They apply their knowledge about the mechanics of walking and running as well as shoe design (as learned in the associated lesson) to...

Extensive, interactive French culture site focuses on the body, fashion and health activities with video conversations--and includes grammar and other features for French learners.

Overview takes a look at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of the early 20th century. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural, moral values, homelife, and politics contributed to lifestyle trends,

Molly organizes her clothes in a pattern using functions.

This ebook version of Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

This resource provides information about fads and fashions during the 1990's.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about school uniforms and whether students should be required to wear them or not. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.