It’s no secret that I’m on a bit of an anti-consumption kick after reading Fashionopolis last month. And I don’t think I’m the only one. The recent episode of the Patriot Act on the horrors of fast fashion was all over my twitter feed last week. It’s hard to watch something like that without wanting to…
It’s January 2nd, are you over the whole resolutions/self improvement thing yet? Are you feeling overwhelmed and like giving up? Yeah, I feel that. But I’ve got way too much on my plate to give in to that, so for the last few days I’ve been working my way through The Bullet Journal Method by…
Lately, my Instagram feed has been filling up with images from the exhibit Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful, Color, on display at the Museum at FIT from September 7th, 2018 to January 5th 2019. It looks really, really cool, but as a busy and broke graduate student, its unlikely that I’ll get…
I finished reading Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden just before I left for the summer, but in the all the chaos I never got arround to really writing about it. That’s something I wanted to correct, because it totally changed the way I look at jewelry, especially pearls….
There are a few books that come up over and over again when I talk to people about historic costuming. Nora Waugh’s Corsets and Crinolines, originally published in 1954, is one of them. While it had been republished periodically over the decades, when I last tried to get my hands on a copy it was…
I’ve been working in museums with historic dress for about two and a half years now. I was trained as an archivist before this, and I’ve had several great colleagues and supervisors to guide my way, but I’ve had to learn a lot of things in a “as you go” manner. While there is no…
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