The Museum of the City of New York has an absolutely wonderful exhibit online at the moment: Worth & Mainbocher, featuring photos and information on many garments by these two master couture houses. It’s a dangerous time-sink, with the ability to do some very super zooming on many of the garments—you can really see the [...]
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I wish I’d learned about this before our trip to MO, because we could have swung through Chicago, but for those of you who can get to Chicago before April 16, 2012, there is a fabulous exhibition of couture fashion by Charles James at the Chicago History Museum. Now, while I love looking at designer [...]
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I’m loath to admit how little I know about the War of 1812 (we fought the British over land that is now Canadian, right?—hey, at least I know the three branches of government!) But, that doesn’t keep me from being intrigued by the Great Lakes Seaway call for 1812 reproduction “cot to coffin” quilts for [...]
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FIT in NYC had an interesting exhibit last year called Eco-Fashion: Going Green that explored fashion from various centuries (with extant examples dating from the 18th century through today) and its effect on the environment. From the poisonous Aniline dyes of the 19th Century, to faux-fur and its extensive, polluting manufacturing process, the exhibit makes [...]
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The Foundling Museum in the UK has launched an online, flash-based version of their Threads of Feeling exhibit. The exhibit is a collection of textile scraps left in the Foundling Hospital’s 18th century records about the abandoned children in their care. In the cases of more than 4,000 babies left between 1741 and 1760, a [...]
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Colonial Williamsburg brings to mind gorgeous fashion and extensively researched clothing construction already, but they’ve outdone themselves with Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing, a new online exhibit. From CW: Three centuries of historic threads help illuminate the lives of the men and women who once wore the clothing in this exhibition. From attending formal [...]
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From June 19–September 18, 2011, Wedded Perfection: Two Centuries of Wedding Gowns is coming to the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY. It just closed at the Cincinnati Art Museum, which owns most of the pieces in the show. If you can’t wait for June—or don’t live near Utica—a book of the same [...]
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