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Contains a collection of over 800 antique sewing and needlework patterns covering the periods of 1870 through late 1940's. Included also, are bead work, household and accessories patterns.

Visual and written info from early costume up to present day.

List of Costumers, suppliers, ready-made costume and accessories.

List of Costumers and suppliers.

Source of supplies for costumers

Links to women's fashion of the Regency Period

Fabrics for costuming.

Membership in the Costume Society of America is open to anyone with an interest in costume.

A worldwide organization of costume professionals and hobbyists with a mandate to "promote the educational, cultural, literary, artistic, and theatrical advancement of costume design and construction".

A living history museum that portrays, through 30 or so complexes, some 150 interpreters, and numerous historical activities, the ingenuity and tenacity that enabled the ancestors of the Acadians to survive the deportation of 1755.

Kings Landing portrays the story of the United Empire Loyalists as well as the British and Irish immigration to New Brunswick.

Doon Heritage Crossroads is a living history museum, re-creating a rural village and two farms, where costumed interpreters welcome you to the year 1914. The site consists of twenty historic buildings with period furnishings, heritage gardens, farm animals,and demonstrations of daily chores.

Woodside is the boyhood home of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister. The 14-room house has been restored to the Victorian style of the 1890s. Interpreters in period clothing demonstrate the fashions of the day.

The home of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister. Restored to the 1840s period, and staffed by costumed interpreters, the house and gardens are kept much as they would have been during the time that Macdonald lived here with his wife and infant son.

The largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town in North America - ramparts, streets, households and 100 costumed staff help to create the look, texture and mood of another century.

Step back in time to the 19th century fur trade at the oldest stone fur trading post still intact in North America.

Fort Steele Heritage Town brings can experience what life in the 1890s was actually like.

Fort Vancouver was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department.

Grey County Museum hosts several period buildings along with interpreters including: 1845 Log Cabin, 1900 Log House, Automotive Shop, Sawmill, Blacksmith Shop, 1920's Farmstead and Barn. In addition to the Native Gallery, and local Black History exhibit, temporary exhibits will be featured through special travelling exhibits. Special Events, Children's Programs, Group Visits, Research Facilities and a Gift Shop are also available at the Museum.

Lots of info for reenactors

The world-renowned Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum possesses more than 75,000 costumes and accessories from seven centuries and five continents.

The Museum of Costume has a substantial collection of both men and women's fashionable dress from the 18th century.

An extensive collection of costume and textiles as well as the Notman Photographic and Textual archives.

Historic fashions and accessories from the 19th and 20th century.

The Costume Museum of Canada (CMC) is home to a collection of 35,000 artifacts spanning 400 years. The renowned collection represents the identity of everyday Canadians, urban and rural, public and private, through the garments that they made, purchased and wore.

North America's most extensive shoe museum with over 10,000 shoes in its' collection. Artifacts range from Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut crushing clogs and Elton John's platforms.