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Glamour Daze: A Short History of Women's Fashion 1900 to 1969

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of women's clothing and fashion spanning the years from 1900 through 1969.
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Tudor Fashion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show features men's and women's Tudor fashion for the rich and the poor. The students are to study these and design an outfit to fit the person.
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Glamour Daze: A Brief History of 1940s Vintage Makeup

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of how vintage makeup was used in the American 1940s. Also includes an extensive image gallery.
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Bata Shoe Museum: History of Western Footwear Fashions

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of Western fashion from this online exhibition of footwear that traces the development of shoes from ancient times through the twentieth century.
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Encyclopedia of Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia of fashion and clothing throughout the ages, from prehistoric to modern times. To find something, click on a letter of the alphabet, a time period, or type a search term.
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Central Washington University: Costume History

For Students 9th - 10th
Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....
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Kyoto Costume Institute

Kyoto Costume Institute: Kci Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Chronology of Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronology of the styles of clothing worn by men and women in Europe over three centuries (between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries). Serves to illustrate changing ideals regarding personal adornment, beauty, masculinity, and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Women's Rights: Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Musei Capitolini: Museum History

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum is one of many under the umbrella of Rome City Council. It is also the oldest public museum in the world, having been established in 1471. Throughout the site, there is extensive information about its history and collections,...
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Connection: Ohio History Central: Ohio's Prehistoric Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Ohio's history of human habitation goes back more than 12,000 years! Explore the prehistory in a logical fashion by clicking on the timeline and tracing people from Paleoindian, 13,000 BC to Historic Indians, 1650 AD. It's interesting to...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The First Ladies at the Smithsonian

For Students 9th - 10th
Fashion to politics, this popular exhibit of the National Museum of American History illustrates the history of the First Ladies.
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The Costume Gallery: A Year in Fashion: 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
View ladies fashion from the flapper era. Some sections require a Library Card from The Costume Gallery.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ancient Colombian Goldmaking

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Colombians used gold to fashion some of the most visually dramatic and sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. Read about the techniques they used and view pictures in this essay.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 32: The John Travolta Syndrome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The songs and movies of modern times have had a major influence on fashion. Coincidentally, many of these important fashion-influencing films of recent times had one thing in common: John Travolta. From the white leisure suits ofSaturday...
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Ibis Communications

Eye Witness to History: The Gibson Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
The Gibson Girl, an illustration done by Charles Gibson, became a fashion icon in the early 1900s. See some of Gibsons drawings and learn more about this social model for women in the early 20th century.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Finding Oneself

For Students 5th - 8th
A good description of the decade of the '70s, the "Me" decade. Read about the fashions, hairstyles, therapies, and fads that made this decade somewhat absurd.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christian Dior

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article about Christian Dior and his impact on fashion in the mid-twentieth century.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilmann Timeline of Art History: Coco Chanel

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the career of influential fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Eighteenth Century European Dress

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore fashion from the 1700's with the slideshow. Includes a discussion of popular styles, textiles and silhouettes.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: The Origin of the Genus Homo

For Students 9th - 10th
The evolution of the Genus Homo is neatly laid out in a chronological fashion beginning with the key change that signaled the origin of Homo, through the evolutionary forms, finalizing with Homo sapiens.
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Other

Flapper Fashion: 1920s Fashion History

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview takes a look at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of the early 20th century. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural, moral values, homelife, and politics contributed to lifestyle trends,
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Ancient Greek Women

For Students 2nd - 7th
History for kids presents an overivew of the history of women in ancient Greece, inlcuding their roles as wives, feasts exclusively attended by women, and beauty and fashion.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: History: Renaissance Clothing for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
What did people wear during the Renaissance? Kids learn about clothing and fashion during the Renaissance on this site.

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