CONFERENCE: Fashioning Identities: Types, Customs, and Dress in a Global Context, CUNY Hunter College, October 17 – 19th, 2013
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/conferences/fashioning-identities/schedule
Links
Clothes Tell Stories
This website is a bit outside of the scope of the course, since it deals with the materiality and display of clothes as objects, but it is a valuable resource for understanding and identifying the constituent parts of dress.
NYT: In search of a gay aesthetic
NYT: In search of a gay aesthetic
Guy Trebay’s review of “A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk” exhibition at FIT.
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 the Two Nerdy History Girls blog: http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-every-girl-should-know-about.html
CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY 