Dating antique clothing. . .

pjstaley · #1 07-08-2007, 06:40 PM

I have had a request from a co-worker inquiring as to whether or not I could period date some clothing. Her relatives were Native Americans who walked the Trail of Tears. I thought there was a website somewhere that had photos of the several types of apparel with the dates and descriptions of the items, but google and ask.com didn't provide satisfactory results. Thank you.

Kraellin · #2 07-08-2007, 08:19 PM

hi pj,

hopefully, this will get more attention in the 'history, conservation, and repair' forum.

airbrushe · #3 07-19-2007, 07:40 PM

Hi, I just happened across a very nice website a couple of weeks ago. They seem to have put a lot of hard work into the site and seems to be filled with very useful information.

Click on the photography link in the left frame.

I really enjoyed looking and learning through the information. Hope this helps.

http://www.acay.com.au/~gsm/

Charlene5 · #4 07-22-2007, 11:11 PM

A long time ago I worked in a research library and I still love to hunt things down. Found a promising link but her photos only go to 1919:

http://www.demodecouture.com/realvict/

Also found this one:

http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100p...hotodating.htm

Didn't have time to pursue the links but it looks very promising.

Cheers,

MJ