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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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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