Curated OER
Texture
Students investigate how texture affects fashion as an element of design. They define texture, and find examples from magazines. They also complete a handout that serves as a note taking guide.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Changes in Turkey
In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Testing How Fashion Impacts the Behavior of Others Around Us
There's an old saying that "the clothes make the man" (or woman, we're quick to add nowadays). How true do you think this is? Here's a project with one approach for finding out.
Other
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Etiquette: Emily Post: The Clothes of a Gentleman
Emily Post article that details how a man should dress on all occassions. It is Post's etiquette lessons for gentlemen. (1922)
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Designer Transforms Garbage Into Glamorous Outfits
Read about a fashion designer who makes clothing from garbage. Includes video.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History and Culture
This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum: Introduction to 20th Century Fashion
Learn about the history of clothing in the 1900's. Includes images, a discussion of prominent designers and the impact of cultural events upon fashion.
Kyoto Costume Institute
Kyoto Costume Institute: Kci Digital Archives
Highlights of Western styles of clothing, in timeline format, inspire us with the vastness and novelty of human creation. Examples span 250 years of changing styles in fashion, with the earliest articles dating from the eighteenth century.
Kyoto Costume Institute
Kyoto Costume Institute: Digital Archives: Collections 1920s
Digital showcase of distinctive articles of women's clothing from the 1920s: coats, dresses, shoes, and undergarments.
Employment Spot
Employment Spot: Service Employment Resources
Explore Service Employment Resources using the Employment Spot career resources.
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Women's Rights: Bloomers
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, bloomers.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Racism in the Media
In this video from Wide Angle, an Afro-Brazilian model discusses the predominance of whites in the Brazilian advertising industry.
Econoclass
Econoclass: Economics of Fashion
This classroom activity examines why being fashionable is expensive, and why clothing trends change quickly.
Other
Model Network: Modeling Industry Online
The Model Network is the fashion e-zine for the modeling industry, with featured articles on the latest trends.
Other
Design Museum: Christian Dior
Biography of influential French fashion designer, Christian Dior.
Other
How to Model: Commercial Modeling Resource
Are you interested in becoming a commercial model? Explore how to become a model and resources on this career field.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christian Dior
Brief article about Christian Dior and his impact on fashion in the mid-twentieth century.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilmann Timeline of Art History: Coco Chanel
A look at the career of influential fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.
Other
John Casablanca: Modeling & Career Center
Are you interested in fashion? Explore resources for those looking to develop personal style or to become a model.
Other
Glamour Daze: A Brief History of 1940s Vintage Makeup
A brief history of how vintage makeup was used in the American 1940s. Also includes an extensive image gallery.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Private Sector: Hair, Beauty and Fashion
Covers skills that may be needed to work in hair, beauty and fashion.
Other
Memorial Hall Museum: Dress Up: Clothing From the Past
Have you ever wondered what people from the 1700's through the 1900's had to wear? With this interactive you have the opportunity to find out!