{"id":174,"date":"2010-03-07T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:15:06","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/about\/questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a place for anyone to post their questions about any objects in the collection, or about the collection in general. This is not just limited to participants &#8211; anyone can post a question or a research idea. We have many unanswered questions right now, and listing them all in one place should help to guide our continued research. Each question has the potential to become a research project, and we may see some themes emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The longer this list gets, the better shape we&#8217;ll be in to shape a cohesive exhibition at the end &#8211; projects that don&#8217;t seem related at the beginning could end up having more in common than you might think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start us off with a few examples that came up today, in no particular order,<br \/>\nand you can continue to add more as comments below<br \/>\n(if your questions are specific to a particular garment, please include the title and accession number, or if we&#8217;ve posted about it elsewhere on the blog, please link to that post)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for some of our sheer garments, what would have been worn underneath them?<\/li>\n<li>for a bodice with no matching skirt, what kind of skirt would have been worn with it?<\/li>\n<li>when did plastics start to appear in clothing (as sequins, beads, closures, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>if a Victorian dress is black, was it a mourning dress?<\/li>\n<li>taking foundation garments into consideration (corsets, hoopskirts, etc.) what size woman would have worn each object? how does her size compare to other women of her time? to today?<\/li>\n<li>who worked on making each object &#8211; who designed it? who made the pattern? who worked on the construction?<\/li>\n<li>who sold the object, or the materials to make it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a place for anyone to post their questions about any objects in the collection, or about the collection in general. This is not just limited to participants &#8211; anyone can post a question or a research idea. We have many unanswered questions right now, and listing them all in one place should help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hcpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}