Some Useful Links

Organizations

• The International Costumers' Guild, Inc.
  This is the main ICG site. Find Costumers' Guilds near you (or ones you just want to join).
  You can also find links to officers, Guidelines, Resources, Photo Galleries,
  links for conventions, and links for Costumer's Webpages and journals
        Other Chapters
        ICG Mega Convention List
        ICG Picture Archives
        Video Archives - YouTube
• Upcoming Historical (1800-1910) Dance Events/Workshops
  Local historical dance & costume workshops and events (including The Elegant Arts Society)
• Cosplay.com
  This may be the main gathering place for all things Cosplay. With a Convention calender, forums and
  tons of photographs it is a great inspirational resource.
• Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild
  Their "Great Pattern Review" is the place to go to find people's experience with a particular Historical Pattern.   There are a ton of great resources for historical costumers on this website.   In addition they hold fun events with pictures.

Clubs (Science Fiction, Dr. Who, etc)

• Science Fiction Association of Bergen County
  The S F A B C has promotes interest and enjoyment of science fiction, fantasy, horror and related areas with a variety of events and activities. If you live nearby, we hope you will join us at our next General Meeting and our other events.
• The Prydonians of Princeton
  A fan-run all-science fiction media fan club, begun in 1984. We cover American and British TV, movie science fiction, and anything else that catches our fancy. We invite you to join us as we enjoy the best of media SF!
• Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers
  The GSHW is a multi-genre writers group catering to authors of Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy and Other Genres.
• Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey
  The Society sponsors discussion groups, book groups, a movie viewing group & movie discussion group, a comicbook/anime/manga group, and gaming in local book stores/libraries/comic book/hobby stores involving Science, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Art, Movies and much more.
• The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society
  The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society is a non-profit organization that meets to discuss and promote science fiction and fantasy in literature, the arts, and popular culture. General meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month and feature a guest speaker involved in some area of Science Fiction or Fantasy, such as writers, editors, artists,etc.
• New England Science Fiction Association, Inc.
  NESFA, founded in 1967, is one of the oldest science fiction clubs in New England. Our largest activities are Boskone, our annual convention, and NESFA Press. Even more Science Fiction Clubs
• Latham-Albany-Schenectady-Troy Science Fiction Association, Inc.  (or look here: Albacon)
  LASTSFA is dedicated to promoting Science, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mythology, and Literacy in the Capital District region of New York State. We do this through our annual convention, our discussion groups, signings, and other events that we sponsor throughout the year.

Resources

• Last known version of the vintagesewing.info website
  This website has tons of online vintage books covering all sorts of vintage sewing techniques and
  patterning including dressmaking and tailoring, sewing, glove making, millinery and hat making, and cleaning.
  Do explore!!!
• Modern Pattern Design: The Complete Guide to the Creation of Patterns as a Means of Designing Smart Wearing Apparel 1942 by Harriet Pepin
  The complete guide to the creation of patterns as a means of designing smart wearing apparel. Pattern designing,
  slopers, hip length patterns, sleeve patterns, Adapting patterns, captes, ties, neckwear, and scarves,, collars,
  skirts, slacks, shorts, coulottes, bathing suits, coats, childrens clothing, summary and index. This book is confined
  to a single subject--pattern making through the use of the modern block system Description of pattern making.
• YIPE! Magazine
  A Costume-dedicated e-fanzine edited by Keven Roche and Jason Shachat with staff
  photographer Andrew Trembley. A free fanzine full of pictures and a focus
  on why people love to costume.
• Fashion Era - Resource for eras of clothing (ancient to 1990's). For example:
  
  • Ancient Greek Costume
    
  • Regency
    
  • Victorian
    
  • Edwardian
    
• The Costume Gallery
  This is a great place for those doing historical costume research. In addition
  Penny Ladnier runs online classes on historical clothing projects.
• Alley Cat Scratch Costumes
  There are some great resources and "How to" information on this large site and the main site for
  Lord of the Rings costuming.
  For instance under the Fashion Design you can find the blank figures for drawing your own fashion designs or dig into the LOTR pages for ways to "fake" armour that can be used on more then just LOTR projects!
• The Costumer's Guide
  This is a great place for pictures and information on some costumes from mostly recent films.
  The site has become a collection place pictures from the movie costume exhibits so worth visiting.
• Padawan's Guide
  This is a great resource for Star Wars costuming, especially for the female clothing.
  It was the fore-runner of The Costumer's Guide.
• The Costumer's Manifesto
  This is a Mega-link site for all things needed for costuming. So massive that you
  should just click on the link to see the main links rather then restate them here!
• The Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archives
  This is a wonderful resource for those who are researching historical costumes from 1750s- 1990s.
  It now has a close-up feature to look at costume details!
• FIDM Museum & Galleries
  This Los Angeles Museum is a wonderful resource for historical and contemporary fashon as well as film costumes, including each year's Achademy Award nominees.
• The Costume Society of America
  The Costume Society of America advances the global understanding of all aspects of dress and appearance. We work to stimulate scholarship and encourage study in the rich and diverse field of costume. Broken down regionally, they list events, exhibits and educational symposia on clothing and textiles.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  While primarily exhibiting art, the museum has costume exhibits and shows with would interest costumers.   You can search collections here Collections, Costume and Textiles or here some Historical Patterns.
• Cosplay Tutorial
  Tons of links to "How To" tutorials on all aspects of costume/cosplay construction challenges.
• Cosplay Supplies
  Good place to look at all the costuming options there are, especially before beginning a project.
• Siam Costumes - Cutters Guides
  Cutters Guides for clothing from the 1920's to the 1980's.
• Claire's fancy-pants Historical Reference & Resources (2014)
  List of resource on-line and books for a broad range of Historical Costuming.

Patterns

• The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild: The Great Pattern Review
  Before you buy a pattern for a historical garment, check out the reviews here to find out what other costumers have experienced using a pattern, as well as finding a list of many Pattern makers.
  
• The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild: Buying Patterns Online
  A very complete list of places to buy Patterns online.
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  The museum has four patterns based on Men's 1700's clothing Historical Patterns.
  (Our local archive of these same patterns here).

Articles of interest and reference

• 9,000-year-old fabric found at Çatalhöyük
  
• Child's Knitted Sock - Muslim Medieval Perod (11th C. -15th C. range)
  
• Ultimate Guide of How to Remove Stains From Clothes
  
• A 5,500 year old shoe from Armenia
  
• Time line for pigments through history.
  
• Footwear from Ancient Egypt.
  
• Archaeology of a Victorian Stage Costume.
  
• Electronic Swatch: Fabric Samples From 1837-1923
  
• Home-Distressing Costumes For the Stage - Tara Maginnis
  
• Multi-Talented Andrea Schewe - On Designing Simplicity Historical Patterns
  
• Sew,Mama,Sew-Full Bust Pattern Alterations (or Adjustments)
  
• Historical Tape Dummy 1914-18
  
• Inspirational!?: Crazy Hats
  
• The Star Wars tapestry – in pictures
  
• 1880's Batgirl also see:
      The EvaDress Pattern
      The Construction Blog
  
• Beacon Adhesive Glue Guide
  
• Glue: This to That
  

Some Conventions and places to find more

• ICG's Mega Convention List
  Includes USA and International Conventions (SF/Media/Gaming/Anime/Dr.Who/Harry Potter and more).
• Costume-Connections
  Central site for Costumecons past, present, and future. Great picture archive too.
• NY/NJ Costumers' Guild Event List
  A complete list with details of conventions and other events Pup's attend.
• Arisia
  Boston, January
• Lunacon
  NYC metro area, March
• The Steampunk World's Fair
  Piscataway, NJ, May
• Zenkaikon
  Lancaster, PA, May
• AnimeNext
  Somerset, NJ, June
• Balticon
  Hunt Valley, Maryland, May.
• NYC Comic Con
  NYC, October
• Albacon
  Albany area, October
• Philcon
  Philadelphia metro area, November

Email Lists (just a sample)

• sick-pups - The NJ/NY Costumers' Guild (Yahoo)
  
• ICG_D - International Costumers' Guild (Yahoo)
  
• F-Costume - All aspects of costuming techniques (Yahoo)
  
• 18th_Century_Clothing (Yahoo)
  
• 18cLife - All aspects of 18th Century Life (Yahoo)