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Membership Guidelines:

Anyone may apply to join the Historic Costume Club. While our members are mainly costumers, people wishing to join do not need to be.

In order to join, please send a short note explaining why. Notes are the easiest to keep track of, membership requests left in the devious thoughts section can sometimes get lost in the shuffle.

The Historic Costume Club is meant as a venue for people interested in historic costuming, historic clothing, and recreating history to share ideas, experiences, and collective knowledge.

Members are encouraged but not expected to contribute the gallery, forums, journals and polls.
Submission Guidelines:

Any member may submit work for consideration as a gallery addition.

Submissions sent without a description WILL NOT be added to the gallery.

Descriptions should include information such as:

Design inspiration (patterns or source material used)

Fabrics/materials used

Era of the design (i.e. 13th century, 1510s, 1770-80, 1806, Medieval, Baroque, Edwardian, etc.)

Country or region of origin

Links to any foundation garments or accessories, if applicable

Foundation garments or accessories will not be added to the gallery on their own. They will gladly be added to the scraps section, or linked to as a part of the deviation featuring the garment they are a part of.

Movie reproduction costumes will not be accepted even if the source is a “costume drama,” costumes inspired by films will be accepted if they meet the following criteria:

A movie inspired costume may share the same tailoring lines, and styles of embellishment as the original.

A movie inspired costume should not be recognizable as “so and so’s costume from such and such a movie.”

Clothing that is made from period sources, but does not resemble garments contemporary to that period will be accepted, but featured in scraps section.
How to submit a deviation to the gallery:

Send a note to *
HistoricCostume.

Include a link to the original deviation.

Include as much information specified in the submission guidelines as possible and other relevent information.

HCC will take care of teh rest as soon as possible.
Wanna join? Send a quick note and tell us why.
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