Update 3 Live: Met Images; New Articles; Lesson Plans and More

Now Live! More content including images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Berg has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to bring 2000+ images from the internationally renowned Costume Institute’s collection to be available through the Berg Fashion Library. 500 images are now live on the site.

New this month:

• Seven new Online Exclusive articles from the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion:

  Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Men's Dress, Kelly Gage (Latin America and the Caribbean)
  Ancient Peruvian Gold and Silver Jewelry: Fashion and Religion, Carole Fraresso (Latin America and the Caribbean)
  United States and Canada Legislation, Phyllis Tortora (The United States and Canada)
  North American Silk Industry, Jackie Field (The United States and Canada)
  Technology and Fashion, Phyllis Tortora (The United States and Canada)
  Indonesian Indie (DIY) Fashion, Brent Luvaas (South Asia and Southeast Asia)
  Pants, Trousers, Joe Hancock (Global Perspectives)

• 500 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. This is the first of four groups of images from the Met

• Lesson Plans with links through to online content

• Several hundred links to Oxford Art Online