Where could I get research materials on the history of Tap Dance Costume?
Hi Tara, I am a theatre student at Smith College in Northampton, MA. I am working on a senior honor’s thesis on costume design for tap dance. Not surprisingly, there is a lack of research on this topic. I am searching through the web trying to find resources. Since you seem a very Web literate costume designer (I myself am not — Web literate , that is) I was wondering if you had any advice about trying to find research materials on my topic… Sorry to bother you if you don’t have the time. By the way, I grew up in Georgia — I saw that you got your PhD at UGA. 🙂 Thank you, Diana Actually, no. I would say that there is nothing on the web that I know of on this topic. I’d guess that some of the costume designs for the Paris Music Halls collection at UGA’s Hargett library site would be for costumes used in tap numbers, but it’s anybody’s guess which is which. There are also some photos in the Library of Congress site on Turn of the Century Vaudeville acts, but I don’t know if these inc
