The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum has started a blog showcasing costumes and accessories from their collections, as well as museum news & notes. My favorite aspect are the VERY high res photos that accompany their posts — check out this wedding dress as an example!
Worn Through: Fashion from an Academic Perspective
For those who are interested in the academic perspective on fashion, you should check out the Worn Through blog. The contributors are academics (including PhD students) and museum professionals, and they post both analytical articles on fashion as well as exhibition reviews, academic jobs, scholarly conferences, and more.
Costume Institute Blog
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has started a “blog exhibit” called blog.mode: addressing fashion. According to their website: “blog.mode: addressing fashion is the first in a series of shows designed to promote critical and creative dialogues about fashion. The exhibition presents some forty costumes and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present — all recent Metropolitan Museum acquisitions — and invites visitors to share their reactions online…” So far, they’ve featured one historic costume (out of three posts), and it looks like there are some other good things coming up (both historic and not).
In other news — sorry again for the radio silence! Dickens Fair has kicked my butt in terms of time and energy. I did do some distressing to my costume which looks good, but few pictures have surfaced since I’m wearing a non-shiny costume. This coming weekend is the last (thank god), so I hope to get some pictures then when my husband comes out to visit (plus I’ll be posing in the Dark Garden corset shop window!).
I did do a little bit of sewing this past weekend, but it’s for the secret Costume Con project so I can’t post about it. I think I’m going to do the two Costume Con projects at the same time, since one is un-secret and that way I’ll have something to post about around here!
Random Fun
Some fun, vaguely costume-related blogs I have run across: des chapeaux, anyone? How about a paper doll that often gets smart historic costumey paper doll outfits to wear? And I do hope we have all seen Thread Bared, where you can see all that is wrong in the world of vintage sewing patterns.
Random Link of the Day
I’m not entirely sure what’s these pages are all about as I don’t speak a word of German, but check out these pictures of historic hairstyles at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: historische Frisuren and historische Frisuren2.