Related Links
For specific cleaning tips, see our page on Care of Vintage Garments and try a couple of web sites that we think give good information:
http://www.fashion-era.com/Vintage_fashion/a13_cleaning_vintage_tips.htm#
Should You Clean Vintage
http://dept.kent.edu/museum/staff/care.html
Below are some links to fashion, textile, and costume museums and websites with information on vintage clothing:
UNITED STATES:
FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) Museum and Galleries
http://www.fidm.edu/resources/museum+galleries/index.html
The Costume Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Behring Center
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/costume/
Phoenix Art Museum Fashion Design Collection
http://www.phxart.org/collection/fashion.asp
The Black Fashion Museum
http://www.bfmdc.org/
The Lace Museum
http://www.thelacemuseum.org/
Kent State University Museum
http://dept.kent.edu/museum/
Texas Fashion Collection
http://www.tfc.unt.edu/main/Index.htm
Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/fsad/cctc.cfm
Cornell Costume Collection
http://costume.cornell.edu/
Haute Couture at the Met
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haut/hd_haut.htm
The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlobal:Museum
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Time Travelers
http://www.TimeTravelersToday.com
CANADA:
Costume Museum of Canada
http://www.costumemuseum.com/
The Bata Shoe Museum
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/
UNITED KINGDOM:
Bath Fashion Museum
http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/index.html
National Museum of Costume
http://www.nms.ac.uk/museumofcostumehomepage.aspx
Fashion Textile Museum - London
http://www.ftmlondon.org/
SPAIN:
Museo del Traje in Madrid
http://museodeltraje.mcu.es/index.jsp
FRANCE:
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/gb/02museemode/index.html
