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Elizabeth Hawes: Along Her Own Lines Until March 26, 2023

This show at the FIT Museum in NYC only runs a month which hardly seems long enough in light of its subject.

Elizabeth Hawes (1903-1971) was both a designer, who made couture clothing and then tried to work for a ready-to-wear garment company, and a writer. She found she could not make money with custom-made clothing because her own perfectionism made it too costly, and that garment manufacturers expected a frenetic creativity that was impossible to achieve. She wrote best-selling books about the fashion industry and about garment design, and then began to advocate for the rights of workers and improvements in their conditions.

This show look at all these different aspects of her life and works, and shows some of the garments she designed like this purple wool coat from 1950 with a contrasting lining.

For more info plus images, go here: https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/elizabeth-hawes/index.php

#fit #fashioninstituteoftechnology #elizabethhawes #20thcenturyfashion #costumehistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #dresshistory #fashionhistory #1950sfashions #vintagefashion #costumehistory #museumatfit

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At some point in practically every course I teach, I have to stop and explain that gender is what scholars say when they mean the arbitrary rules that we apply to men and women. To illustrate, I take one of my shoulder bags, and and then my husband's man bag and point out that neither my female shoulders nor my husband's shoulders bar us from using each other's bags, and yet he would not be seen dead carrying my purse, and I think his man bag is pretty boring.

This exhibition in Mumford, New York, runs through 2024 and offers you examples of what 19th Century Americans wore, based on their sex, and how they argued about what a man or a woman could or should wear. As in, who should get to wear the pants?

Click through for more info, including several corset patterns which you can download which have been drawn up from the historical garments in the museum's collection.

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Student Attire at the Museum of Texas Tech University

Now through February 5th, Clothing and Textile Division of the Museum of Texas Tech in Lubbock has a show of clothing worn by high school and college students over the last 100 years. It looks to be a small show, but it does feature some prom dresses, and who doesn’t like the chance to see some vintage evening dresses?

For more info go here: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/StudentAttire.php

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Gold on Gold: 1910 Gown for Mary Stull Studebaker of South Bend, IN

This full-length gown was a throwback in 1910. Mary Stull Studebaker, who was in her 70s and celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary, opted for a style that was more like a late 19th century look. Not so much in the bodice which was more relaxed than the “wallpaper on the wall” look which was common in the late 19th century. But the high neckline brought lower only through the use of lace and the breadth at the shoulders with tight sleeves are reminiscent of an earlier era when the silhouette was an exaggerated hour glass.

There is no information on the maker of this gown which is a pity. As you can see, it combined gold satin and gold lace with hand-embroidered netting in a combination of geometric and floral motifs, and chiffon softened and overlaid the long satin skirt and also the sleeves which had gathering lines running along their length. A truly remarkable creation which shows how magnificent single-color harmonies can be.

Interestingly, the gown may have been more of a success than the marriage. The South Bend History Museum curators tell us that Mrs. Studebaker spent her anniversary evening out on her own as she was tired of Mr. J.M. Studebaker spending nights at the office or out without her. And she refused to tell him where she went!

Unveiled: Wedding Traditions runs through January 8th at the South Bend History Museum: https://www.historymuseumsb.org/see-do/exhibits-2/

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Designing Women: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors at Museum at FIT

Now through May 14, 2023, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology has a show on women fashion designers who also did interior decoration from the late 19th Century onward. As both kinds of designing were part of the decorative arts, this made perfect sense to them. The same principles about the art of composition were used to design both. In fact, one of my early fashion books actually explains how to make each room of a house as harmonious as a woman’s clothing.

You see here a yellow, fur-trimmed tea gown from around 1918 which is attributed to Lucile, then a remarkably fluffy evening cape by Jeanne Paquin, evening cape, 1987, France, and lastly a painting by Henri Gervex which he called “Cinq Heures chez Paquin” or Five Hours at Paquin from 1906 which gives you the idea that women spent a lot of time picking out their purchases at the designer’s salon.

For more images and more information on visiting, go here: https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/designing-women.php

#museumatfit #fit #designingwomen #19thcenturyfashion #20thcenturyfashion #1900sfashion #1910sfashion #late19thcenturyfashion #costumehistory #costumehistoryexhibition #designhistory #decorativearts #dresshistory #fashionhistory #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #vintagefashion #teagown #vintageteagown #lucile #jeannepaquin #henrigervex #womensfashionandinteriors

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Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity

Now through August 13, 2023, the New York Historical Society has 19 oil paintings and a boatload of other illustrations from the collection of the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, featuring the work of J.C. Leyendecker (1874–1951) who worked as a commercial artist. He is best known for this Arrow Collar Man advertisements, but he did covers for the Saturday Evening Post too in the early 20th Century. Leyendecker was gay in an era when hiding that identity was often essential to success, but his work reveals how much he loved the beauty of young men.   

He worked in the era before fashion photography dominated, and the ability of illustrators to capture realistic images of people, and to indicate some kind of story, whether for magazines or advertisements, was big business. This image is called “Record Time” and captures the moment during a swim meet as the man in the suit holds a stop watch. It was created for Kuppenheimer & Co of Chicago which sold menswear, including suits. Leyendecker’s illustrations can give you a good idea about what men wore, at least well-off men who had money to spend on nice clothes.  

For more information, go here: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/under-cover-leyendecker-and-american-masculinity

#undercover #Newyorkhistoricalsociety #vintagefashion #vintagemenswear #costumehistory #dresshistory #fashionhistory #costumehistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #historyofillustration #vintageillustration #menswear #arrowcollarman #arrowcollar #saturdayeveningpost #jcleyendecker

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Now through October 1st, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston has a small exhibition of wedding fashions from the 18th century onward. Click through to learn more and see what other exhibits are running this summer and fall.

#costumehistory #dresshistory #fashionhistory #weddingdresses #vintageweddingdresses #MFAboston #costumehistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #18thcenturyfashion #19thcenturyfashion #20thcenturyfashion #21stcenturyfashion

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What a great name for a fashion exhibition. This online exhibition looks at the post-revolutionary period and the early 19th century as Americans tried to figure out what a citizen if this new republic should wear. Seems to me a good one to enjoy as the 4th of July is upon us.

#costumehistory #dresshistoryexhibition #dresshistory #fashionhistoryexhibition #fashionhistory #costumehistoryexhibition #18thcenturyfashion #19thcenturyfashion #DARmuseum

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Through June 30, 2023, SCAD in Atlanta has this show on One of the great masters of draped design (alongside Madeleine Vionnet). Such draping yielded a more sophisticated garment design, often reminiscent, in some ways of classical Mediterranean styles. This show includes over 60 garments collected by the designer Azzedine Alaïa who found them inspiring. As do I.

#madamegres #azzedinealaia #scad #scadatlanta #costumehistory #dresshistory #drapeddesign #fashionhistory #costumehistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #classicaldesign #garmentdesign #historyofgarmentdesign #1930sfashions #1940sfashions #1950sfashions #vintagefashion

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From what I can tell, paper garments were a stunt. A way for the Scott Paper company to draw some attention to its products in the mid-1960s at a time when young people were known for running giddily from one fashion to another from week to week and tossing out what was no longer the latest fad. In short, when novelty for its own sake was a virtue in fashion. And when a stunt could gain a company more attention than mere advertising could.

The show at MAD the Museum of Art and Design in NYC runs through August 27th, 2023. 

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Now through November 2023, you can learn more about McCardell at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore. Click through to learn more about visiting this show on a wonderful American designer.

#clairemccardell #20thcenturyfashion #1930sfashion #1940sfashion #1950sfashion #costumehistory #dresshistory #fashionhistory #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #costumehistoryexhibition #marylandcenterforhistoryandculture #baltimore

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Annees 80. Mode, Design et Graphism En France

Now through April 16, 2023, the Musee des Art Decoratifs, aka MAD in Paris, has a show called The 1980s: Fashion, Design and Graphic Design in France. It boasts over 700 different items including furniture, fashion designs, posters, photos, even album covers and fanzines from an era they say “represented a joyful clash of styles and how that memorable decade filled the worlds of fashion, design and graphic arts with a spontaneity and freedom.”

You see here a dress in leather with enormous shoulder pads by Claude Montana which actually dates to 1979.  Such shoulder pads were found in almost every women’s silhouette for a time and you could even buy a camisole with shoulder pads built into it in order to update an outfit that did not have them. Yes, they were that necessary to happiness. The usual explanation was the move of more women into corporate leadership roles and the need to copy the size of men’s shoulder pads, but honestly, they were huge. Far bigger than what I saw in men’s tailored clothing.

You can find more information here regarding tickets etc: https://madparis.fr/Annees-80-Mode-design-et-graphisme-en-France-2292

#MADParis #museedesartsdecoratifs #annees80 #1980s #1980sfashion #costumehistory #costumehistoryexhibition #fashionhistory #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistory #dresshistoryexhibition #claudemontana #shoulder pads #garmentdesign #historyofgarmentdesign

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Now through November 12, 2023, you can see this show at the Museum at FIT in NYC which has designers from Latin American countries & those of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. This includes work by Adolfo, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Isabel Toledo, and a raft of other designers. The curators have also put lots of info and pictures online, so if you can't make it to New York this summer, you can enjoy parts of this show.

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Before pop stars, the Dress Doctors focused on how theater costumer designers told a story with the color and cut of the outfits they designed for various characters. Here, the Museum of Arts and Design, or MAD for short, in New York City has a show around the stories told by the songs and costumes worn by Taylor Swift.

Tickets are timed, so you need to plan ahead. You can click through and make your reservation.

#costumehistory #dresshistory #fashionhistory #21stcenturyfashion #taylorswift #taylorswiftcostumes #madmuseum #costumehistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #swifties #dresshistoryexhibition

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This show runs now through July 2, 2023 at the Mint Museum In Charlotte, North Carolina. It starts with a English 18th-century sack back gown and runs through contemporary fashion designers. Click through to learn more about visiting.

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Click through the link above to find more about this costume exhibition described by the curators this way:

India in Fashion:” The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination‘

India in Fashion’ explores the layered impact that traditional Indian dress, textiles and craft have had on the international fashion sensibility since the 18th century. Whether it is transparent muslins, whimsical chintzes conceived on the Coromandel Coast, the varied draperies of the sari and dhoti, or the botehs of Kashmir’s shawls, the treasury of India’s sartorial and textile traditions have provided inspiration to royal courts, European haute couture, contemporary design visionaries, and even global fast fashion. The first exhibition of its kind in India, the show will also trace the birth and development of the contemporary Indian fashion community.  Curated by Hamish Bowles, global editor-at-large for Vogue and editor-in- chief of The World of Interiors, and designed by Patrick Kinmonth with Rooshad Shroff, the exhibition features iconic Western couture and ready- to-wear designs inspired by India, from the 20th and 21st centuries.

#indiainfashion #nita mukesh ambani #costumehistoryexhibition #fashionhistoryexhibition #dresshistoryexhibition #fashion #vintagefashion #fashionhistory #dress history #costume history #NMACC