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Our five-day intensive workshop is underway! Colleen Callahan, of Costume and Textile Specialists in VA, arrived on Thursday and began our workshop on Friday. We’ve already accomplished a great deal – I can’t wait to see how much more we get done in the next two days!
Here are all of our finalists, each of which is getting a “makeover” so that we can exhibit it:
(if you want to see more pictures of any of these, click where it says “From” . . . under the photo to go the the Picasa Web Album for that object.)
Right now we’re too busy sewing to write, but look for posts about each object!
April 12th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
You are in good hands!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Just found an interesting quote by the man who claimed to have invented the hobble skirt in 1908 — in his autobiography, French couturier Paul Poiret states that “like all great revolutions, that one had been made in the name of Liberty — to give free play to the abdomen: it was equally in the name of Liberty that I proclaimed the fall of the corset… Yes, I freed the bust but I shackled the legs.”
(Jill Fields, “Fighting the Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets and Culture, 1900-1930” in Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Winter, 1999), pp. 355-384, 358.)