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...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A Textile Portrait in Purple and White, c. 1830

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I am so taken with this elegant portrait of a fashionable sitter, c. 1830. I have a fragment only-- one section of the repeat. The o...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Brocaded Silk Shoes: James Adams, London Shoemaker, 1770s

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I viewed these elegant court pumps from the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum, in Plymouth, MA. ( www.pilgrimhall.org ) on my summe...
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...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

The Latest in Mourning Wear: Advice from Harper’s Bazar, 1901

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“Crepe is more fashionable than ever” notes the November 1901 edition of Harper’s Bazar. “House gowns and dinner gowns made entirely of...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Mrs. Catherine Donovan, Dressmaker to the NYC Elite

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Irish–born dressmaker to New York’s elite, Mrs. Catherine Donovan (1826?-1906), studied fashion in Paris. Donovan created her gowns in he...