The Best Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers

• Armor
  • Armour Construction (Index)
  • Chainmaille How-to Includes patterns.
  • Chain Mail production techniques
  • Hardened Leather Armor How to guide.
  • Illustrated Handbook for making Maille
  • Japanese Chain Armor-How to
  • Maile-How to
  • Table of Mail Patterns
  • The Making of Wisby Plate Armor
• Auld Garb Monger Instructions for making many ren-faire costumes
• Basic Tunics
• Bellydance Headdress
• Byzantine Costume How-to
• Chaperon's and How to Make Them
• Character Makeup
• Claws and Fangs How-To
• Cloak Making Guide - Index
  Costume College

  Yearly event held providing educational classes and programs regarding all aspects of costuming. Beginner thru Professional.

  Costume Construction Tips

  Costume File Library-The SCRIBE Network

  Drawstring Breeches Pattern

  1895 Skirt Pattern

  How to make an Elizabethan Corset

  False Teeth How-to

  How to make Fangs

  How to Make Fantasy and Medieval Clothes

  Fitted Bodice Pattern

  Foam Latex Makeup

  Footwear of the Middle Ages Info, how-to, and patterns.

  GBACG | The Great Pattern Reviews

  Harem Pants and Cabaret Skirt

  Hat Making Guide - Index

  Hood Making Guide

  Horror Makeup Studio

  How to make a Kilt

  Kiltmaking

  Klingon Costume How-to

  How To Make a Latex Mask

  Late Nineteenth Century Sewing Patterns

  Instructions on making a Leine

  Make a Manly Man's Renaissance Garb!

  Mask-Making How-To

  Medieval Dress Making Guide - Index

  Middle Eastern Costume How-to

  Patterns for 16th century

  The Quick Costume Guide

  How to Make a Renaissance Hat

  Sewing Tips and Techniques for 17th Century Costume

  Making Shoe Patterns

  Simple Cloak Patterns

  Teach Yourself Special Effects Makeup

  Stormtrooper Armor: Construct Your Own For Under 10 Bucks!

  Tabard Pattern

  Tail Building Instructions

  Victorian Corset How-to

  Viking Tunic Construction

  Werewolf costumes-How we make them

  Wigmaking

  Index - How-to Guides

  Schools

  • ACCADEMIA DI COSTUME E DI MODA
  • California Institute of Fashion & Technology
  • Copenhagen Academy of Fashion Design
  • Delamar Academy of Make-up
  • Dragana K Edwards School of Fashion & Design
  • Fashion Design School Ida Ferri
  • Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing
  • >Fashion Institute of Technology
  • FX-Masters - Special Makeup Effects Training
  • London College of Fashion
  • National Institute of Fashion Technology
  • Paris Fashion Institute
  • Parsons School of Design
  • Ryerson Polytechnic University
  • Studio Makeup Academy
  • Textile Schools

• All Dressed Up With No Place To Go
• Andy Nguyen's Tailoring and Sewing Page
• Arachne's Web Server (Lacemaking)
• Arts-Online Fashion Links
• Costumers Manifesto
• Costume Movie Site
• Costumes Today
• Costuming from the Hip, a Guide to Middle Eastern Dancewear
• FabricLink
• Fashiondex, Inc
• Fashion Links
• Fashion WWWeb Index
• Fernet's Fashion Figures
• Gwyneth of Avalon - Renaissance Web Site Reviews
• Make-Up Artist Magazine
• The Official Mardi Gras Home Page (City Links)
• Renaissance Entertainment
• Renaissance Faire Page
• Scott's Internet Hotlist: Clothing and Fashion
• Sewing & Collecting Vintage Fashions
• Sir Clisto Seversword's Tome of Adventure & Knowledge
• Stagecraft and Theatre Links
• The Stitchers Source
• Tatting & Lacemaking Page
• TES: The Essential Site
• Theatre and Drama Virtual Library
• Tips from the Jewelers Bench

• CostumeCons
  • CostumeCon 17 Feb 12-15, 1999, Cherry Hill, NJ
• World Science Fiction Conventions
  • BucConeer, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998
  • Aussiecon Three, Melbourne, Australia, September 2-6,1999
• Other Costume Events
  • Convention Connection SF&F convention listing. Many have masquerade and hall costume competition.
  • COSTUME CON-nections
  • Costume Museums and Theatre Tour
  • Renaissance Faire Listing
    
  • Ren Faires

• Avalon
• Campa na bhFiann
• Costume Guild UK
• Costumers Guild West
• The Costume Institute
• The Costume Society of America
• Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild
• ICG-International Costumers Guild
• Legio X Gemina Educational displays in reconstructed Roman military and civilian dress 1st century AD.
• Lunatic Phrynge
• Markland Ltd. Feasts, fighting and demonstrations to experience and teach about the medieval period.
• Old West Living History
• Period Events & Entertainments Re-Creation Society, Inc. (PEERS)
• The Shadows of the Past
• The Society for Creative Anachronism
• Southwest Costumers Guild
• Spanish Colonial Living History Organizations
• US Civil War Reenacting

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