Costume for Theater is not the same as the History of Costume...
Websites for Costumes
- NYPL Digital Collections
- Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
- Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin houses a varied collection of costume artifacts, from Robert Deniro to Gone with the Wind. Note their digitized Performing Arts glass Plate Negatives.
- Lantern: from Media History.org: popular film magazines in full text​ 1865-1990's
- Margaret Herrick Library Production Database
- University of Washington Fashion Plate Collection
- Ad*Access from Duke University
- The Cosumer's Manifesto: a hodge podge of blog articles, picture collections, how-tos. The Manifesto begins, "When I costume, I am not a fashion designer nor a clothing manufacturer, but a builder of character, concept, and physical movement."
Books about theater costume and its history
- Theater Costume: A live book listThat problem with "costume" meaning the dress of the people as well as the things performers wear makes this search messy. We don't have a specific subject heading for "theater costume."
Costume in Greek Tragedy by Call Number: 6th fl GT550 .W95 2011xISBN: 9780715639450Publication Date: 2011". . . costume in its original performance context of fifth-century Athens, [&} the implications of subsequent uses in Roman and more recent performances . . "
Costume in Performance by Call Number: 7th fl PN2067 .B23 2017ISBN: 9780857855107Publication Date: 2017" This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming. . "
Shakespeare in Elizabethan costume: period dress in twenty-first-century performance by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781350234420Publication Date: 2022
Unbuttoned: the art and artists of theatrical costume design by Call Number: 7th floor PN2067 .P65 2017ISBN: 9781138919037Publication Date: 2016"...documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance."
