LibGuides: Theatre: Costuming

Costuming

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
America: History and Life (EBSCO)
Index and abstracts of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
America: History and Life is the index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Google Scholar
An internet search engine that specifically searches scholarly literature and academic resources.
Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. It searches a wide variety of sources, including academic publishers, universities, and preprint depositories looking for:

Peer-reviewed articles
Theses
Books
Technical reports
Abstracts
Reprints
Harper's Weekly (1857-1871)
Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
The electronic version of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, 1857-1871. HarpWeek includes all the pages of Harper's Weekly as scanned images, together with a series of indexes. Harper's Weekly was a leading national weekly during the second half of the nineteenth-century, providing information and insights on political, military and social issues and events prior to and during the Civil War. HarpWeek includes news, editorials, stories, illustrations, book reviews, serialized novels, advertising and maps from the weekly. It also includes biographical information about period leaders.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals, books and other resources in the humanities.
Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications. The database includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Complete is a resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (EBSCO)
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications on all aspects of theater and performance.
Provides full text of journal articles on all aspects of theater and performance, plus indexing for books, book articles and dissertation abstracts. IBTD with Full Text is a multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals. IBTD was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research and continued by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College.
Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
BDB provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.

Information found in IBDB is derived primarily from theatre programs (in most cases from a production's opening night). Supplemental information was taken from newspaper and magazine reports, theatrical text books, interviews with theatre professionals, and League archives.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This database includes nearly 515 full text titles and over 490 peer-reviewed journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications in sociology.
Provides full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, plus "priority" coverage journals and "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. SocINDEX with Full Text features subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Searchable cited references are also provided.

SocINDEX covers all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
World Book
Modules include: Early Learning, Kids, Student, Advanced, Timelines, eBooks, Activity Corner, Discover, Dramatic Learning, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta, L'Encyclopedie Decouverte.
WorldCat
Catalog of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide.
The OCLC union catalog, containing more than 43 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items as far back as 1000 B.C. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.

Costuming Reference Books in Maag Library

Most books in this category will have call numbers in the early GT 500s and early TT 500s.

Contemporary Fashion by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (Editor)
Call Number: REF TT 505 .A1 C66 2002

ISBN: 1558623485

Publication Date: 2002
Costume by Rachel H. Kemper
Call Number: GT 511 .K45

ISBN: 0882251376

Publication Date: 1977
Costume 1066-1990s by John Peacock
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT 730 .P43 1994

ISBN: 0500277915

Publication Date: 1994
Costume: An Illustrated Survey from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century by Margot Lister
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT 513 .L5 1968

Publication Date: 1968
Costume Close-Up: Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750-1790 by Linda Baumgarten; John Watson; Florine Carr
Call Number: OVERSIZE TT 507 .B38 1999

ISBN: 0879351888

Publication Date: 1999
Costume Construction by Katherine S. Holkeboer
Call Number: TT 507 .H593 1989

ISBN: 0131812076

Publication Date: 1988
Costume Design on Broadway: Designers and their Credits, 1915- 1985 by Bobbi Owen
Call Number: PN2067 .O94 1987

Publication Date: 1987
The Costume Designer's Handbook by Rosemary Ingham; Liz Covey
Call Number: TT 507 .I46 1992

ISBN: 0435086073

Publication Date: 1992
Costume Language: A Dictionary of Dress Terms by Stephanie Curtis Davies
Call Number: GT 507 .D38 1994x

Publication Date: 1994
Costume Patterns and Designs by Max Tilke; Rizzoli
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT 513 .T513 1990

ISBN: 084781209X

Publication Date: 1990
The Dictionary of Costume by R. Turner Wilcox
Call Number: REF GT 507 .W5

Publication Date: 1969
The Encyclopedia of World Costume by Doreen Yarwood
Call Number: GT 507 .Y37

Publication Date: 1978
The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion, 3rd Edition by Charlotte Mankey Calasibetta; Phyllis G. Tortora; Fairchild Publications Staff (Contribution by); Bina Abling
Call Number: TT 503 .C34 2003 (also REF)

ISBN: 1563672359

Publication Date: 2003
Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years by Richard Corson
Call Number: GT 2290 .C6 1980

Publication Date: 1980
The Guide to Historic Costume by Karen Baclawski
Call Number: REF TT 503 .B33 1995

ISBN: 0896761371

Publication Date: 1995
Hair and Wigs for the Stage: Step-by-Step by Rosemarie Swinfield
Call Number: GT 2310 .S95 1999x

ISBN: 1558705139

Publication Date: 1999
The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes by Albert Racinet
Call Number: REF GT 510 .R3313 1988

ISBN: 0816019762

Publication Date: 1988
A Pictorial History of Costume by Wolfgang Bruhn; Max Tilke
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT 513 .B763 1990z

ISBN: 3803050081

Publication Date: 1992
The Visual History of Costume by Aileen Ribeiro; Valerie Cumming
Call Number: OVERSIZE GT 511 .R44 1997

ISBN: 0896762211

Publication Date: 1997

Useful LC Subject Headings

Beauty culture -- United States -- History

Clothing and dress -- Asia

Clothing and dress -- Dictionaries

Clothing and dress -- History

Clothing and dress -- China -- History

Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History

Clothing and dress -- Psychological aspects

Clothing and dress -- Social aspects

Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects

Clothing and dress -- United States

Clothing and dress in art

Costume

Costume bibliography

Costume design

Costume designers

Costume -- History

Costume -- Egypt -- History

Costume -- Europe -- History

Costume -- France -- History

Costume -- Greece

Costume -- Japan

Costume -- Middle East -- History

Fashion -- History

Footwear (Dictionaries, History, etc.)

Hairdressing (History, Locations, etc.)

Hairdressing of African Americans

Hairstyles

Jewelry

Jewelry -- History

Mask making

Theater

Theater Production and Direction

Costuming Internet Resources

Costume and Textile Museum References
Costume Gallery Websites
"You may tour through the 14 areas of The Costume Gallery Websites. We have over 40,000 web pages, 85,000 images, and two databases. Our websites vastly covers the history of the fashion / costume / textile industries."
Costume Page
Costumer's Manifesto
A wiki for sharing ideas and collaborating with other costumers
Daphne Dare Collection
This collection includes costume and scene designs from more than fifty productions by British designer Daphne Dare (1929-2000). Dare designed for major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic as well as for television and film.
Dressing the Character
The Role of the Costume Designer
Elizabethan Costuming Page
This site, divided into 16 sections, focuses on a broad variety of topics related to clothing in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Of particular interest are those entitled, "Portraits and Pictures" and "Regional and National Fashions."

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Useful to Renaissance enthusiasts and those involved with costuming!
Google Images: Costume History
This link performs the search described in the titles and provides a vast array of costume history-related images!
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
The mission of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is to further "the understanding of human beings within their material and social environments through the study of textiles of artistic, cultural, and historic significance." It is primarily a teaching collection serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Human Ecology's Design Studies Department. It includes 13,000 textiles and related objects spanning spanning various places, techniques, and time periods.

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The Digital Collections database provides open access to images and cataloging information for almost 9,000 items in the HLATC. This unique trove is very useful for research and instruction in the study of textiles. The collection is especially strong in ethnographic textiles and costumes from all over the world, especially Latin American, African, South and Southeast Asian, and Turkish objects. It is also strong in 19th- and 20th-century American and European home furnishing and apparel fabrics. The database is fully searchable by keyword, title, subject, and geographic area. (Y. Cortes, Skidmore College for CHOICE)
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
The digitized version of the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is based on originals housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Motley Collection consists of over 5000 costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric. The collection documents 150 productions of Shakespeare and modern classics, dating from 1932 to 1976, staged in England and the United States, from the West

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The majority of the collection has been digitized, and can be searched by play title, theater name, actor and director names, as well as medium. In addition, production notes have been compiled for selected plays; for example, a researcher interested in a 1954 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream can view excerpts of reviews, commentary from the set and costume designer, Margaret Harris, and a cast list including Vanessa Redgrave who played Helena.
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Stage Costume Exhibit (Victoria and Albert Museum)
An online exhibit from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibit highlights stage costume designers, costume makers, and the costumes themselves.
Textile Museum
Costume History
Western costume history by era and decade
Tonic to the Imagination:Costume Design for Stage & Screen by B.J. Simmons & Co.,1889-1959
The B.J. Simmons & Co. costume shop in London produced costumes for theater and film, along with renting out costumes to such venues for over 100 years. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has a web exhibition of 228 costume designs from over 60 productions from the span of 1889-1959.