Fashionable Furniture, or, The Glories of the Past
include window drapes. Every now and then, someone argues with me that the historic house where I work would not have had window curtains or drapes. Sometimes t...
Month: January 2016
Frivolous Friday: Checkin’ it Out
One gets ideas. I often get ideas about checks. In particular, I get ideas about loud checks. The gown in the fashion plate is appealing, when you’re look...
Women’s Lives in Early America: Symposium
Eventually, the to-do list will catch up with you. Vague ideas about things you’d like to make turn into thoughts about why you don’t have whatever the thing is...
Reflecting Fashion
Whilst serving as the commandant for a research-paper writing prison*, I spent some time perusing the Met’s digital collections, in particular the Costume...
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