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V&A Fashion Department Online Resources

January 27, 2012

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Possibly old news to you, but the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Fashion department has recently-ish revamped their website and added a lot of interesting content — mostly articles, some videos. You can get to the main hub here, but here are some specific items of interest:

Finally, I noticed that they’ve started the V&A Online Journal — so far, there’s three issues. The most recent one has a very interesting article for those of us who like to geek out scholarly-style: “An Adorned Print: Print Culture, Female Leisure and the Dissemination of Fashion in France and England, around 1660-1779.”

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Cool Image Resource

January 26, 2012 19th century

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and in addition to having an AMAZING collection of interesting historical resources, I recently found that they have digitized some really interesting images… most particularly, a number of press photos of fashions worn at horse races from the 1900s onwards. The 1910′s images are [...]

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Help Bling Me!

January 23, 2012 20th century

As previously noted, the GBACG is having what should be an amazing Titanic event. While I’d love to make something new, money is tight enough that I really shouldn’t be spending money on yards of silk. And, shockingly, I tried on my 1910 Lady Maud evening dress and it still fits, and since I’ve only [...]

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1912 Evening Wear Article Added

January 20, 2012 20th century

I decided to post the article on 1912 evening wear for men and women that I wrote for GBACG’s newsletter to my Fashion Trends for Winter/Spring 1912 page. I’m super excited about the upcoming Titanic Dinner that GBACG is putting on — can you tell?

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Copyright for Costumers

January 19, 2012 research

Trystan has written an excellent primer on copyright for costume bloggers that’s worth checking out. It’s a good rundown on the essentials and can help us all determine what’s legal to post and what’s not. And while we’re on the topic… I want to boost the signal on one particular portion: crediting others for their [...]

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Costume College Teaching Thoughts

January 18, 2012 Costume College

I’m trying to decide what to offer to teach at Costume College this year. Here’s a bunch of ideas — I’d love to hear feedback on what sounds interesting! Some ideas are fleshed out, some are still rudimentary… Social History of Hair in England, 1770s-1820s The changes in English hairstyles from the Georgian to the [...]

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