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This list is by no means comprehensive: Keeping link lists up to date is so time consuming that I have limited this list to only a few sites that are either rich in content, offer lots of links or both.
See also Costume Museums and Purveyors
Quick-jump to your preferred era:
Medieval to Renaissance | Baroque | Rococo
& Directoire | Empire, regency, Crinoline & Bustle | 1900s
& 1910s | 1920s and later
The Costume Gallery Shiploads
of pictures and info
The Costumer's Manifesto:
theatrical costuming; large link collection
The Costume
Page: huge links site, rarely updated nowadays
Costume
Images from Braun&Schneider
Textile dictionary
The History of Lace
Kyoto Costume Institute
Greater Bay Area Costumers' Guild - Collected
critiques of commercial (period) patterns
Démodé - a fellow
costumer's dress diaries
Katherine's Dress Site - Cross-era
info and repro WIP (Work In Progress) pages
Pictures
from the Manesse manuscript
Contemporary manuscripts:
Les très riches heures du Duc du Berry
Handbook of Costume,
1500s - Pictures from an old costume book
Drea's Elizabethan
Costuming - With image gallery and good explanations. Superb
resource for the costume-maker. Huge.
Images
from Caroso's Il Ballarino, 1581
The Renaissance Tailor
- Lots of How-To info
Baroque Costumes at L'Âge d'Or
Lace Making in the 17th
Century
Jeff & Caroline's pages of 17th Century
Stuff
National
Gallery of Art
La Compagnie des Cent Associes 
Good info by a Nouvelle France reenactment group
Eastern European Patterns
18th
century clothing glossary
Lace
in the 18th century
Mara Riley's Page - comprehensive 18th
century costume page
Dressing an 18th century
lady
Brocadegoddess - a
Blog with Howto info
18th Century Notebook
- links to pictures and/or descriptions of extant pieces
Cathy's Regency
and Victorian Fashion
Jessamyn's Regency
Costume Companion Comprehensive resource for the costume-maker
1850s patterns
At sensibility.com:
Directoire/Empire pictures | Victorian
pictures
Victorian caricatures
Articles from Godey's
Lady's Book
Corset
making instructions (1860s) 
Gentlemen's Fashion
Christine's Costume Page
(1830s-1960s fashion pictures)
Victorian
Costuming Myths I love such mythbusting pages!
Journal des Demoiselles
1894 - Fashion plates and texts from a fashion magazine
Lorkas Kleider - How-Tos for the
1870s/1880s
Foundations Revealed - Some free
articles on making corsets, mainly Victorian/Edwardian
At sensibility.com: 1900s/1910s
pictures
Christine's Costume Page
(1830s-1960s fashion pictures)
At sensibility.com: 1920s
pictures | 1930s
| 1940s | 1950s
Christine's Costume Page
(1830s-1960s fashion pictures)
Kimono History
Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto Costume Museum
Kyoto National Museum
Tilke's Oriental
Costumes online
Online Lederhosenmuseum
Gauverband Nordamerika -
North American heritage organisation, not authentic
Trachtenberatungsstelle
Bezirk Schwaben
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