Welcome to my Research Sources page for Costume Design!
Chao Chen, Research Librarian for the Humanities Email: chao.chen@tufts.edu; Tel: 617• 627• 2057
Museum, special collections, trade and professional web sites that are openly available
Photographs in magazine, museums, libraries and more
Streaming Videos
Suggested subject browses when searching for books:
You will find sources such as play, character analysis, stage/production history, ...
People
Social Life and Customs
Etiquette and Manners
Autobiographies/Biographies and Travels
Regional or Period Novels
by Country
by People
by Time Period
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Magazines "are particularly valuable resources for costume designers because so many are devoted to fashion, lifestyle, and the daily activities of ordinary people."
Periodicals offer a more peculiar essence of the a period rather than the general description in a costume history (Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey, The Costume Designer's Handbook, Heinemann, c1992, pp. 61-62.)
Designers' favorite magazines include: life, Vogue, Town and Country (1902-1913), Tatler (1830-1832), Punch (1841-1991), Harper's bazaar (1867-1912), National geographic. and Women's Wear Daily Archive.
Subject-Databases for Articles
A. Performing Arts Periodicals Database
B. Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
C.In EBSCOhost databases, you can search across the following databases, among others: