How I research my historical costumes without losing my mind

Do you feel overwhelmed when researching a historical garment or fashion era? Here’s my basic method for studying dress history when I’m starting a new costume project. From fashion plates to extant clothes, art & portraiture to books and academic and historic text sources, follow along as I research the design of my upcoming Robe a la Francaise. (The number of sniffles I had to edit out of this video was obscene.) *** REFERENCES *** This was recorded a bit haphazardly so I apologize for not linking to every source seen in the video, but here are some highlights from my bookmarks collection. If you see something specific in the video that's not linked here, please leave a comment and I'll try to look for it. GENERAL FASHION TIMELINES https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/ MUSEUMS https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search? (Largest museum collection in the world) https://collections.mfa.org/collections https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections?type=featured https://collections.lacma.org/ https://sparcdigital.fitnyc.edu/ https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/ https://www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio https://www.europeana.eu/en (aggregate of several European museum collections) https://www.artic.edu/collection https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop (collection is somewhat hard to search) https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXFC/browse/? https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/ https