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

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,

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.

This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...

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.

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.

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

Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, bloomers.

This museum is one of many under the umbrella of Rome City Council. It is also the oldest public museum in the world, having been established in 1471. Throughout the site, there is extensive information about its history and collections,...

Fashion to politics, this popular exhibit of the National Museum of American History illustrates the history of the First Ladies.

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

Ancient Colombians used gold to fashion some of the most visually dramatic and sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. Read about the techniques they used and view pictures in this essay.

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.

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....

A good description of the decade of the '70s, the "Me" decade. Read about the fashions, hairstyles, therapies, and fads that made this decade somewhat absurd.

Powerhouse Museum has collected swatchbooks containing swatches of fabric from the early 1800s through 1923. Click through the swatches to see how fabrics changed over the years.

Brief article about Christian Dior and his impact on fashion in the mid-twentieth century.

The evolution of the Genus Homo is neatly laid out in a chronological fashion beginning with the key change that signaled the origin of Homo, through the evolutionary forms, finalizing with Homo sapiens.

Written and audio overview of the purple dress worn by Mary Todd Lincoln and the dressmaker who created it for her. Explore how fashion was an important part of her role as "First Lady."

The liberation of women as expressed by the flappers of the 1920s was in stark contrast to the actions of women in the Victorian Age. Read about how flappers expressed their freedom in fashion, employment, and leisure activities.

The 19th century love for feather adornments led to a hue and cry by conservationists against the wholesale killing of birds. This site details the time, the feather trade, and the move to curtail it.

A comprehensive look at life in the twentieth century complete with timelines and photos. Decades are broken down by art and architecture, books and literature, educational movements, fads and fashion, historic events and technology,...

Learn about the history of China: their beliefs, arts, philosophies, medicine, and political evolution.

Features a country profile of Bangladesh, background details, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news, government, maps, and much more tourism...