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Embroidery Samples at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Any visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City should stop by Gallery 599 on their tour of the museum. It's a small gallery, to get there you simply descend a small flight of stairs...
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MythBusters: Fashion History Edition
Myth: Fashionable eighteenth-century ladies shaved off their eyebrows and used false eyebrows made of mouse fur.Grace Dalrymple Elliot by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1778. Private Collection. Are those...
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Book Review: Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie...
Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteby Kimberly Chrisman-CampbellYale University Press"Fashion, which its detractors have called slight, inconstant, fickle, and...
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Interview with Fashion Victims Author Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell recently published her first book, Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. After looking through this lavish text, I wanted to know a bit...
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Printed Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America
It's Textile Month here on The Fashion Historian! Each week this month we'll be bringing you a textile themed post. This week, learn about printed textiles in eighteenth-century America!Printed cotton...
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Art Deco Textiles in America Part 1: Africana Prints and Non-Western Influences
It's Textile Month here on The Fashion Historian! Each week this month we'll be bringing you a textile themed post. This week, in Part 1 of a two-part series, learn about how the art of non-Western...
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We are currently experiencing a few technical difficulties and all your new Textile Month articles are not posting. We're looking into it and hope to be back in working order soon!
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After spending some quality time with tech support The Fashion Historian is back in business! We will be finishing up the last few posts from Textile Month, as well as bringing you some more Disney...
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Book Review: Nautical Chic by Amber Jane Butchart
Nautical Chicby Amber Jane ButchartAbrams (USA); Thames & Hudson Ltd. (UK)"It is France, the United States, and Britain whose naval uniforms and maritime clothing have had a lasting legacy around...
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Art Deco Textiles In America Part 2: American History and Modern Life
We're finishing up Textile Month after some technical difficulties! This week we bring you the long awaited Part 2 of our Art Deco textiles series. Catch up with Part 1 at the link below, and then read...
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Book Week is coming soon to The Fashion Historian! Beginning next Monday I will spend an entire week reviewing the latest fashion and textile history publications. I've still got room on the schedule...
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Book Week Review: The Dress Detective by Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim
Welcome to Book Week on The Fashion Historian! Every day this week I will be reviewing the latest in fashion and textile history scholarship. Enjoy!The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to...
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Pink
Think Pink from Funny Face (1957) The color pink has come to represent all that is quintessentially girly. Barbie, the most famous of girl's dolls, frequently wears pink, drives a pink convertable,...
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Exploring The Decades With Disney Princesses: Snow White
As a fashion historian, I find that an interesting aspect of Disney is how the animated features serve as records of the visual culture of their day. The Disney Princesses, a successful sub-franchise...
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Eighteenth-Century Fans at the Chicago History Museum
Is anyone a fan of the eighteenth century? Fans have been an important luxury item, status symbol, and practical object throughout history. Fans survive from cultures all over the world, many...
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I recently read this article by Lisa Bloom, called How to Talk to Little Girls. It's a quick and interesting read but the gist of it is that the author recently met the five-year-old daughter of a...
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