Well I'm not sure where to start, but I guess the beginning is as good a place as any.  When I first became involved in the costuming aspect of Cowboy Action Shooting, I must have asked this question a dozen or more times. I was lucky enough to get pointed in the direction of the Carolina Belle’s web site  affectionately known as the Belle Alley.  There I met many other women who were all interested and involved in costuming for CAS to some degree.  One such lady was Josie Smith, aka: Greeneyed Gypsy SASS #60086 who I became fast friends with. We frequently shared museum websites, auction sites, digital libraries and databases of antique clothing covering the SASS era. Sadly there had been no place that we had found that had a large collection of dresses that were easily accessible and pertained to the specific years we were most interested in. During one of our frequent phone conversations, Josie and I were lamenting the lack of available dressmaking research information and images. Wishing that we had access to ladies periodicals from this time period that could be shared with others without significant cost or damage to the often delicate books and magazines, we began to hatch a crazy idea. What if we began purchasing antique periodicals with the intention to create a digital library of our own? We could concentrate on the fashions nearest and dearest to our hearts, the years 1869-1903 the time line for the sport we love. Well that seems like a life time ago, and after many, many phone calls and hours spent combing Ebay later, we have the wonderful beginning of a dream come true.