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Afterthought: Personal Obsessions
As you get to know me better, you will discover that I am always fascinated by people of African descent that pop out here and there in the footnotes of history. Going through my bookmarks I re-stumbled upon these portraits from the Royal Photographic Society. Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an orphaned African “princess” who became…
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Avant Tut interest in all things Egyptian
As we read about haute couture, and I reveled in the gloriousness of this practice of hand fabricated garments, I recalled one of my favorite opulent gowns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection: this Egyptian Revival 1912 gown by a New York dressmaker that went by the moniker Simcox. I discussed in this garment…
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Webinar – ARTstor: Fashion and Costume in the Digital Library
Originally posted on Fashion, Textile & Costume Librarians: What: Online Webinar – Introducing ARTstor: Fashion and Costume in the Digital Library When: Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:00 PM – 4:00 AM EDT Details: This session will highlight collections within the ARTstor Digital Library that are particularly useful in the field of fashion and costume history. Attendees…
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L.M. Blumstein Department Store, Harlem, 1886
A fashion relic. I need to check out what the site looks like now.
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Berg Fashion Library, New Image Partnership: The Fashion Museum, Bath
Originally posted on Fashion, Textile & Costume Librarians: Image Partnership: Berg Fashion Library – Fashion Museum, Bath Kathryn Earle, Head of Visual Arts Publishing at Bloomsbury, comments: “Bloomsbury is delighted to partner with the Fashion Museum, Bath, by making some of its most exciting objects available to view online for the first time through the…
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The New Speed of Fashion
Suzy Menkes discusses the current state of the fashion industry: http://nyti.ms/14KIzmW Sign of the Times | The New Speed of Fashion The industry is broken in more ways than one: runway shows don’t match retail expectations; designers can’t keep up with demand; and customers can’t buy a coat in winter. So who’s to blame?
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The Resurgent Fashion of the Thirties
The Resurgent Fashion of the Thirties Here is a link to the September 5, 1938 issue of Life Magazine, particularly an article on Fall Fashions highlighting the (what was in hindsight very brief) resurgence of hoop skirts. Here, too, is a commentary on the article and the RetroSpective show at the Museum at FIT from…
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Threaded – Your go-to fashion blog for all things historical and sartorial
Threaded – Your go-to fashion blog for all things historical and sartorial.
CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY 