Showing posts with label 18th century fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th century fashion. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2020

The Way We Dress: Clothes and Meaning, Ayer Mansion Lecture Series

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Fridge List for Fall 2019

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Kimberly Alexander  Upcoming Talks for Fall 2019: Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era  and Fashioning the New Eng...
Monday, August 12, 2019

A Child’s 18th Century Lace Stomacher

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Carefully preserved in the collections of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, MA. is a diminutive stomacher (Accession #PHM111A). Made...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Leverett Family Petticoat Returns to Colonial Williamsburg

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The Leverett family quilted petticoat, reproduced from a pattern created by pricking the design onto muslin, has been returned to the mak...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Luster. Shine. Sheen: The Visual Lexicon of the 18th Century Elite

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Mid 18th century paste stone and silver shoe buckles, French or English. Private Collection. Behind me in the pit sat a young fop who ...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

A Striking Persimmon Sack Back, c1760s

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Now closed, I was fortunate to tour the Casanova exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston this summer. It was a lavish and bold ex...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Image, Strawbery Banke; Photograph, Ellen McDermott Shoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappoin...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Two Refashioned Silk Dresses

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Photograph by Laura Wulf  @Massachusetts Historical Society Exhibit Teaser: Two refashioned silk dresses will be featured in the f...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Lecture: "'For the heat is beyond your conception:' Dressing for the Heat in the Eighteenth Century"

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On Thursday, July 13 , join Neal Hurst, Associate Curator, Costumes and Textiles, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for an illustrated ...