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The purpose of this study is to find out the possibility of reproducing traditional costumes using the digital technology. For this, we selected a women's robe and a men's suit in the rococo era of the 18 th century. For the reconstruction, we analyzed the costume focusing on the figurative features of the silhouette, and then applied the 3D technology to reconstruct them.

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Material culture is the conventional name for the tangible yield of human conduct. We have things to study, and we must record them dutifully and examine them lovingly if the abstraction called culture is to be compassed."… "The design is a record of the process of design and … of the designer's mind and provides a resource for the historian and scholar created in time and shaped to cultural pattern." [1] Historic Costume Collections offer an opportunity for sociologists, anthropologists, historians and designers to study fashion design from concept to realization; the social milieu in which the garments were produced and worn; and the evolution of body type and posture. This paper discusses a project to enhance these investigations through advanced technology in virtual humans and a multicultural, multilingual development team.

An international, interdisciplinary group of fashion historians and makers, informatics and metadata specialists, and digital media experts from Drexel University, Seoul National University, the University of New South Wales, Australia, the Fulbright Foundation and the Controlled Vocabulary Working Group of the Costume Society of America are researching production and conservation of new media for exhibition of historic fashion. Our team has created prototype 3D interactive media that will allow the viewer to be an active participant in the exhibition of historic fashion. Rich metadata descriptions of these media ensure their persistent discovery, access and conservation.