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From designing clothing to accessories, students create original garments or design garments that follow well established fashion trends.

About the Industry

• O*net Online Fashion Construction information
• WOIS / The Career Information Ssytem

Fashion Associations

• American Association of Museums
• American Sewing Guild
• Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
• Cool Culture
• Costume Society of America
  CSA's website offers news, symposia and event information, member directory and more. Also, find listing of publications (including Dress), with some back issues available for purchase.
• Costume Society of Great Britain
  Website contains event and award information, as well as listings of related exhibitions and information about the Costume Society Journal and other publications.
• Fashion Group International
• Professional Association of Custom Clothiers
  Professional Association of Custom Clothiers members work in home-based and commercial settings.
• Sewing.org
  A site that is for the sewing enthusiast, industry or sewing educators.
• The Textile Society of America, Inc.

General Fashion, Textile, and Costume Information

• A&L Tirocchi Dressmakers Project - RISD Museum
  The project details the lives and work of Anna & Laura Tirocchi and their Rhode Island dressmaking shop. The site features essays, databases, and an online exhibition for From Paris to Providence: Fashion, Art, and The Tirocchi Dressmakers Shop.
• Apryl Miller Studios
• The Costumer's Manifesto
  General links page for a variety of topics, ranging from Halloween costumes to Fashion History.
• The Fashion Era
  Very interesting website which contains 300 illustrated pages on topics ranging from costume history to current fashion trends.
• FiberARTS Magazine
  Online version of the magazine with archived articles
• Gwen Lewis Designs
• Style.com
• Textile Dictionary
  Find a listing of fabrics by category. Descriptions include fiber and weave information, characteristics, and typical uses.
• Timeline of 19th Century Dress
• Pattern Review
• Sewnet
• FIT NYC 
  Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
• Parsons  
  Parsons, the New School for Design
• Simplicity 
  Simplicity pattern site with sewing basics, patterns, supplies and sewing news

• Kennth D King
  Couturier

• Sandra Betzina 
• Fabric Depot 
• Bramaking Supplies 
• Quilting Arts 
• Lucky Mag  

Vogue(US)
Vogue(UK)

Fashion Industry

• Apparel News
• Fashion Career Center
• Fashionindex.com
  Online fashion resources.
• InfoMat
  Industry information and search engine.

Conservation

• Conservation Online
  "Conservation/Preservation Information for the General Public"
• Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet - Textiles and Clothing
  "Storing Wedding Gowns and Textile Heirlooms" by Joyce Smith and Norma Pitts
• Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP), Textile Conservation Workshop
  "Recommended Textile Storage Techniques"

Art Museums and Galleries

• Art Galleries, Geneseo
• The Art Gallery, Oneonta
• Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego
• Art Gallery & Anderson Gallery, Buffalo
• Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo
• Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh
• Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, Cortland
• Gibson Gallery, Potsdam
• L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• The Museum at FIT
• Myers Lobby Gallery, Plattsburgh
• Neuberger Museum of Art, Puchase
• Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh
• Rockfeller Arts Center Art Gallery, Fredonia
• Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz
• Stony Brook Museums & Galleries, Stony Brook
• Tower Fine Arts Gallery & Art Student Association Rainbow Gallery, Brockport
• Victoria and Albert Museum in London