FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 7, 2018 Contact: costume@cornell.edu Location: Human Ecology Building, Level T Display Cases Hours: 8 AM – 8 PM on weekdays, 9 AM – 4 PM on weekends We are always free and open to the public! Exhibition, WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline, features items worn by prominent activists, politicians, artists, […]
Diversity & Dress
Undergraduate Research Assistant Profile: Tuyen Nguyen ’20
Tuyen began working in the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection this past academic year and will be working with us this summer! She is majoring in Fashion Design Management and Cornell class of 2020. When did you begin working in the collection and what inspired you to join the CCTC? I helped out […]
Nixon Speaker Preview: Shravan Kummar
Blog post by Samantha Kirsch ’18. Back in January, sixteen FSAD students had the opportunity to visit India to look at the apparel supply chain. We visited both large factories and small scale production facilities, and I was personally drawn to the stories of those working to revitalize traditional craft and textile production. The revival […]
Dykes in the City: An interview with founder, Nicky Cutler
Envisioning the Future Through the Past: The Ongoing History of the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection
Mission to Myanmar: An Exploration of Traditional Kachin Dress
Blog post by Rachel Doran (’19) On March 29, 1930 Miss Charity Carman embarked on her journey to Burma, now Myanmar, as a missionary for the American Baptist Church. Miss Carman came from a family of missionaries. Her brother, John S. Carman, a graduate of Cornell University’s medical school, served as a medical missionary in […]