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Clothed in Meaning: A Personal Journey in the History of Fashion
Today we are happy and excited to present a guest post from Noelle Reilly, a senior at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, studying History and Anthropology. Noelle was a student this summer in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, … Continue reading
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Prowling Around Paisley
A recent trip to Scotland gave me a chance to add dimension to what I’ve already learned from the Historic Dress project’s exploration of shawls. An invitation to a conference in Glasgow (on early modern women and work) provided the … Continue reading
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Spending a semester where fashion and technology intertwine
Next up in our series of posts from students in the first-year seminar “From Cotton to Kevlar” is one from Kate Grynkiewicz. Like many students in the course, she enrolled on a whim, but came away with some surprising insights. … Continue reading
From Rudolph Ackermann to Joan Rivers: The Evolution of Fashion News
This post by Katelyn Dube is the last in the series from students in our course “From Cotton to Kevlar.” Her team (which also included Kate Grynkiewicz, another poster here) produced a web exhibit tracing the history of fashion news … Continue reading
A Student’s Perspective
With the semester coming to a close, we’re pleased to introduce a series of guest posts from students in the course Cotton to Kevlar. Thanks to first-year student Andrea Moore for launching these reports from the class! When I was … Continue reading
“Denim Revolutionaries:” The Women of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Politics of Dress
Recently, our “Cotton to Kevlar” class was treated with a visit from Tanisha Ford, an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose research explores “fashion, performance, and women’s rights activism” (http://www.tanishacford.com/). Professor Ford teaches … Continue reading
Everything Old is New Again: Gibson Girls, Flappers and the “New Look”
We have been hurtling forward in time, and on timelines, in our course “From Cotton to Kevlar.” On Monday, as we reached the turn of the twentieth century, our syllabus read: Educate your Eye: Browse Flickr Commons, Luna, ARTstor and … Continue reading
Fashion Shoot (A Hands-On Tutorial of Digital Imaging Tools)
Our most recent class meeting of “From Cotton to Kevlar” was one of experimentation and play. Jon asked us to read Chapter 3 of Rosenzweig & Cohen’s book Digital History, to inform a discussion of the pros and cons of … Continue reading
Clothes Shopping Meets the Museum (An Introduction to Online Exhibits)
This week in our course “From Cotton to Kevalr,” Jon Olsen introduced us to basic concepts in design for web exhibits. First we read Paula Petrik’s discussion of the “Top Ten Mistakes in Academic Web Design,” which drew our collective … Continue reading
Off and running: the semester begins
I am writing these words wearing an iconic piece of clothing. But I didn’t understand just how iconic until yesterday, at the first class meeting of our freshman seminar “From Cotton to Kevlar: Historic Dress meets Digital Humanities.” The course, … Continue reading