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Some July sewing and fashion links of interest

July 03, 2017

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!