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Fashion and Costume

Resources and strategies for finding information about fashion, costume, and related topics.

Online Image Resources

Selected image search engines.

Google Image Search
Creative Commons Search
Flickr
Tin Eye
Wikipedia Commons
Public domain and freely-licensed images, sound, and video. Note the ability to browse by classification (topics, locations, media type, and more!) in addition to keyword searching.

The following databases are licensed resources available to UCLA users only.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
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Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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UC Shared Images: LUNA Imaging Collections This link opens in a new window
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AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
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The British Library Flickr Commons Photostream
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Image sets include: fashion & costume; portraits; illustrated letters & typography; maps; and highlights form the 'Mechanical Curator.'
Digital Public Library of America
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Europeana Fashion
Library of Congress Digital Collections
LIFE Photo Archive
New York Public Library Digital Collections

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VADS: the Online Resource for Visual Arts

Image Resources

Digital Image Collections

Albert Hoxie Slide Collection (UCLA)
CoPA Commercial Pattern Archive
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There are several collections from the States, Canada, and the UK represented in the database, which functions like a union catalog of pattern collections.
J. Willis Sayre Photograph Collection (U. Washington)
London College of Fashion’s Woolmark Company Collection
Motion Picture Stills Online (UCLA Digital Collections)
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA)
Production Art Database

Art Institute of Chicago Textile Collection
Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles: Materials Collection
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The collections include Japanese techno-fabrics, the 62 Group archive, ‘Common Threads’ the Mary Harris maths/textiles archive, The Ann Sutton Foundation archive, Fibre Arts archive, some of Dorothy Benson’s remarkable sampling and work for Singer Sewing Machines and more.
Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
Embroidery Stitch Identification Guide
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection (Univ. of Winsconsin)
The Textiles Collection: University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
West Yorkshire Textile Heritage Project

Last Updated: Apr 26, 2024 2:45 PM
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Subjects: Art, Architecture & Design, Music & Dance, Theater, Film & Television

Tags: clothing, costuming, dress, textiles