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Some July sewing and fashion links of interest

July 03, 2017

Some July sewing and fashion links of interest
Current Exhibits:
  • Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern at the Brooklyn Museum.  Looking at her life, including her clothing!  Closing this month, so check it out!
  • Fashions of the Forties: from WWII to the New Look at Kent State University Museum.  This exhibit is going until 2018 - and this museum always has great stuff!
  • Huicholes - a people walking toward the light at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Featuring the beautiful textiles from an indigenous group in western Mexico.
  • Not really an exhibit, but the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe is in just a couple weeks, will showcase a huge amount of folk art including textile arts. I'd love to make it to this!

Articles and websites:
  • Google has created an amazing resource for fashion and textiles: We Wear Culture.  It is full of informative articles on everything from designers to the meaning of fashion to history of fashion.  I particularly like the section called Making of.
  • We are getting ready to do a re-print of our #128 Russian Settler's Dressand I saw this article in We Wear Culture about traditional Russian dress and noticed some similar garments!

Podcasts and videos:
  • Someone on our Folkwear Patterns Sewing Group posted a link to this great video (from Mental Floss) about getting dressed as a (wealthier) woman in the 1700s. 
  • Finally, this video of Lake Street Dive playing on Stephen Cobert's show - lead singer is wearing a 1950s skirt (just like our #256 At the Hop).  So cute!!  Love the large applique! 


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