Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!
Programme:
🧵 Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
🧵 Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
🧵 Alden O'Brien - TBD
Looking for a sewing pattern and reading reviews people left on an Etsy shop's page.
Why, just WHY do people give 5/5 stars and then write: "Haven't tried it yet, but looks good" or "Can't wait to try this", "I love it, can't wait to start my project" etc.
That's totally useless! Have they actually tried the pattern / made the garment? Did it work? Were there any problems? What about the instructions? Are they happy with the result? (Bonus if there's a photo of their finished garment.) These are the things I need to know.
@Rivikah@NatureMC Could be, but I've encountered this phenomenon not only on Etsy... 🤔 I've bought a pattern on Etsy in November and another in mid-January and the option to leave a review is still open for both. Maybe it's different for different Etsy shops?
@jtheseamstress@histodons@historikerinnen Thank you, this is fantastic! I wasn't able to attend the workshops live due to timezones etc and I really appreciate these recordings to be able to watch them back.
The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" event has been announced! Taking place online on September 24th, it's all about exploring the "connections between smell, scene, fragrance and the social and cultural history of Dress and Textiles".
Programme:
🧴 Caroline Vaughan-Kett: Scents and Sensibility; an Insider's View into Modern Perfumery
🧴 Kimberly Wahl: Perfume and Visual Culture 1880 to 1915
🧴 Hilary Davidson: The Fragrance of Fabric. Some Directions in Research
Save the date! Sunday July 30 is the 19th Century Dress & Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" online conference.
Programme:
🧵 Jo Teague - The Material Culture of the Needlework of Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum
🧵 Deirdre Morgan - Pants, Performance, and Perception: The Impact of New York's Disguise Law (1845) on Gendered Dress
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