The Kyoto Costume Institute

The Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archives A Japanese institution's view of Western dress, and a beautifully photographed one. KCI holds more than 13,000 garments and accessories along with many thousands of related documents, and its digital archive presents images and text for collection objects in date order, from before 1700 through the 2020s, in both English and Japanese. There is no keyword-heavy catalog to wrestle with: pick a period and browse, which suits early-stage research when you want to see how silhouettes shifted across a few decades. Images carry KCI's own copyright with no open license, so keep them to study and reference.