Demode is a costumer's site with an excellent collection of links to museums' extant clothing, the largest and most specific collection of this type I'm aware of on the web, updated regularly.
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Heritage Studio deals in antique clothing, accessories, etc. from all the way back to the Regency. A beautifully put-together site that has kindly granted permission to post images here.
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Vintage Textile offers really sumptuous garments, often including a good selection of Regency and 18th century garments and accessories, featured in really fantastic photographs.
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Meg Andrews English Antique Costumes sells some quite wonderful, very early items, including Regency and even Georgian gowns, coats, shoes, and shawls.
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The Regency Fashion Page is an invaluable collection of carefully researched and organized images, with comments. Several fashion plates in the Companion come from there, with kind permission.
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Kent State has a wonderful costume collection, and several beautiful Regency gowns and men's suits are posted on-line as part of the Panorama of Costume History.
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Every plate from Braun & Schneider's ca.-1870 The History of Costume is posted here. The plates seem well-researched, but just remember that it's a Victorian look back at Regency fashion.
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An article in the Northwest Journal, a publication of the Northwest Brigade Club, offers an interesting discussion of what 18th-century American explorers really wore (not much buckskin!).
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The Museum of the City of New York has a wonderful on-line annotated collection of 18th- and early-19th-century shoes, as well as a smaller but still fascinating collection of fans.
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The Northampton Central Museum also has a wonderful shoe collection. Be sure to look at both the 18th- and 19th-century shoes to get both the earliest and latest Regency examples!
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Beyond the Fringe: Shawls of Paisley Design is an article by Meg Andrews, on the Victoriana site, that gives quite a comprehensive history of paisley shawls and how to date them, starting from 1790.
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Suite 101 gives a quick rundown on
period jewelry, focusing on necklaces. Several images are included, and give a good general feel for the styles preferred.
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Regency Romance author Candice Hern has a fantastic collection of various 18th- and 19th-century personal objects, including quizzing glasses, vinaigrettes, perfume bottles, and beaded reticules, as well as a nice assortment of fashion plates.
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 The Wisconsin Historical Society has a wonderful on-line collection of children's clothing, including a fascinating selection of Regency-era bonnets, gowns, and a boy's "skeleton suit" of the 1820s. Thanks to alert reader Julie Fountain!
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