Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art - Historic Costume & Textiles Collection

April 14 - December 16, 2000 View the exhibition catalog (pdf). View images from this exhibition. "Strive as you will to elevate woman, nevertheless the disabilities and degradation of her dress, together with that large group of false views of the uses of her being and of her relations to man, symbolized and perpetuated by

Unmentionables (Clothing as history, pt. 2)

First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

19th century Fashion History Timeline

The Well Dressed Woman by Helen Gilbert Ecob (1892) – HTC Rare Book Gallery

1914-1920, Plate 019 - Costume Institute Fashion Plates - Digital Collections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries

Le Rire Gose 1909 Elegantes Fashion Art Nouveau illustrated by

PDF) Pictorialism and Sartorial Symbolism: A Poetic Response to Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

New Woman's Undergarment (1890s-1920s)

Dress Reform - Freethought Trail - New York