Valley Advocate

Women’s history told through clothing: Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club to host ‘Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore’ author, April 9

The Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club is celebrating its 100th birthday this spring, and will kick off its centennial speaker series with a talk on the history of women’s clothing with Northampton ...
Forbes

Everyday Clothing Worn By American Women Explored In Exhibition And Book

Clothing and accessories worn by ordinary American women at work and at play are featured in an exhibition at New York Historical museum and in a lavishly illustrated book, published by Rizzoli.
Vogue

The New-York Historical Society’s “Real Clothes, Real Lives” Is Not (Necessarily) A Fashion Exhibition

Eddie Bauer, JCPenny, Wrangler—these are the labels you’ll spot in The New York Historical Society’s latest exhibition, “Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College ...
Wall Street Journal

A show looks beyond the runway to stitch together an overview of practical women’s clothing.

Fashion exhibitions present the best and the most. They’re about aesthetics and semiotics. They hunt for metaphors and moments. Though bought and worn by real women, the designs are elevated, the work ...
Forbes

We Are What We Wear. Women’s Clothing Reflects Shifting Identities, Values

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: Actress Emma Watson wearing a gown made from recycled plastic bottles, according to British Vogue, attends the Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016 in ...