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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...
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...
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