I plan a lovecraftian mental bizare act, playing in the 20´s or 30´s. My problem at the moment is where to find the fitting clothing.
Any ideas or better links? Your help will be welcome.

There were some recent postings about bizarre costumes, I think. Do a search.

Bill,
thanks for this information although it wasn´t very helpful.
I´m neither looking for bizarre (halloween) costumes, nor for cheap fantasy costumes.
I´m looking for some authentic 20´s or 30´s men wear. Clothing , the people did wear in this time!
Some of the links from the topic "undertaker costumes" are very nice, but it´s the wrong century.
My questions is, if anybody knows an e-shop or a link to a page, where I can find and buy such kind of clothings.

I know I have recently seen a couple of sources of authentic costumes. I'll see if I can find them. The discussions I mentioned were about authentic period costumes, not about Halloween costumes. There were a couple of links to websites for sources of such clothing.
I have a couple of older books on authentic costume, one is "The Mode in Costume" by R. Turner Wilcox, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. The other is "A History of Costume" by Karl Kohler, published in paperback by Coles, 1980. Both are excellent, the latter, however, stops short of the 20th century. The first one has some excellent drawings of early 20th century male (as well as female) clothing. I hope this helps a bit.

Try calling your local theater, and talking with the costume designer. (S)he should be able to not only help you with design, but perhaps also do the construction, including some pockets etc, that wouldn't appear in normal folks clothes.

Here is a great resource:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html

Plus lots of tips for props etc. I'm a Cthulhujunkie - and you should get the Call of Cthulhu film for sure....

In terms of props - the CDs that give instructions and templates for visas, passports, newspapers etc. would be great for what I think you are doing - I have a few Cthulhoid (Tindalosian) routines but I play it modern day and have these as old antiques and documents I find in an old chest.

http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/stati......erns.htm

that link has patterns for periods

http://vintage-closet.com/

a place to buy vintage clothes

http://www.egrays.com/

anohter nice place

http://www.redlightvintage.com/html/home.html

might give them a call

Sir T,
thank you very much, The vintage-closet link is what I mean!
great, thanks.

Dr. spector,
also thanks for the link, but I already know this adress and also the cd rom (I bought it last year. I played the cthulhu roleplaying many years, so I know how the clothings should look and I also have many informations about that time, but no link to an e-shop that sells such clothings.

Go to the library and find pictures of what you want and take them to a good seamstress. You'll be amazed what they can do with a few good pictures. You can also check with the costume designer for your local professional theater. They can not only tell you where to find costumes but can usually recomend a seamstress.

If you live in England: Camden in London is a good place to look. very victorian shops around there

Look for a vintage clothing store in your hometown.

Ask any of those people who run costume photo booths where they get their stuff.

Do some research at the library then make a trip to a thrift shop. The most expensive things from that era will be authentic head gear and spats.

Contact a professional costumer (see the post on Undertaker's costumes for a good set of links) and ask the costume designer direct questions. Castle Blood does custom work all the time that you won't see on the website. Right now, wer'e working on long lab coats from the Victorian era for our own attraction. No glitz. No fancy trim. And not known to the general public. Just ask and most people who design costumes will tell you id they can fill the bill or not.

Whatever you do, be prepared to do more work and/or pay more money as you decide how "authentic" something needs to be. However, keeping an eye open may yeild some surprising results. Last year, I "lucked" into two 1920's hats (bowler and top hat) when a client cleaned his attic. The people who bought them from me "lucked" into a great price when I sold them a month later. They didn't last long once somebody knew that I had them!

Chris

Personally I'd recommend ebay for this. Hats are generally a bad thing as most people don't understand hat sizes... But I have got some really good and authentic clothes from ebay, you just need to invest a bit of time searching.