Earlier in the week it was 75* F here in the mountains, and so today the much more seasonable 50* seems like an icebox. So, it’s a great day for sipping something warm and catching up on the latest fashion history stories.
- An article of clothing serves as an historical document. Here, the analysis of a bloomer dress from 1855.
- Many of the personal effects of fashion photographer Bill Cunningham have been donated to the New York Historical Society. An exhibition is planned for the spring.
- FIDM, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, is in the process of sorting, storing and digitizing their collection of designer Tina Leser material.
- Fashion Weeks are happening, and that means a return to the issue of cultural appropriation. Vogue got the ball rolling with a fashion shoot starring white model Karlie Kloss as a Geisha. Some argued that it was not that a white woman was dressed as a Geisha that was so wrong, but that the use of the Geisha stereotype itself was wrong, even if the model had been Japanese.
- And then the Gucci runway show seemed to say, “Political correctness is dead.”
- What exactly have textiles meant to North Carolina?
- How are history and information and culture saved during times when the official officials disagree with historic fact and scientific data?
- Thanks to a weaver’s daughter, a Harris Tweed operation is saved from closure.
- This one is a blend of two of my passions – dogs and historical fashion.
- As production in China becomes more expensive, opportunities in clothing manufacturing and textile production arise elsewhere. Like Italy and South Carolina.
- My first historical research hero, Ivor Noël Hume, has died at age 89. His books were an inspiration.
Thanks for link to article about scientific data preservation. Sent it along to people who would want to know. Scary.
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Enjoy the weather there, in Grand Coulee here we just got a couple of inches more of snow today and back below the 30’s. Looks like it’s going to stay that way for awhile. I am officially tired of winter now and ready for some warmer weather, but not hot, please!! It has been cold enough this month and last that I used the front porch as a freezer occasionally. I can’t get out the back door because of snow load on the porch roof to our freezer in the back shed, and I have to go out the front door, around the yard in piled snow and fight a gate. It’s just not worth it at the moment!
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