This site is a complete illustrated and deeply authoritative history of fashion, basically oriented for study purposes. Fashion-era.
com is divided into the study of the evolution of fashion and costume in different historical periods, ranging roughly from 1800 to the present, with special emphasis on the evolution of haut-couture fashion and trends from the 1980s to the present time. There are also other in-depth sections that deal with changes in the concept of beauty, royal fashion and history of adornment and body and hair accessories, plus a particularly deep section dealing with the history of undergarments. There is also an extensive section focused on theory issues, plus newspaper and magazine clippings depicting fashion critique. It is worthy to note that the site almost exclusively studies female fashion, though at times you can find comment on menswear. For further consultation of these topics you can buy one of the several e-books on offer by site’s author. Fashion-era.com hosts a number of forums where users discuss fashion from a rather theoretical point of view, which means that ‘nice’ is not very much of a welcome word, unless you can sufficiently argument your point, and which means that the discussion threads are really worth reading for some illuminating insight into fashion understood from a point of view vaguely related to the history of culture and society. At the forums there is also a trading area where registered users can exchange used garments and accessories. 
