Name: Jackie DeVito ‘18 Major: Fashion Design Management When did you begin working in the CCTC? I began working in the CCTC the spring of my freshman year. I was given the chance to tour the CCTC during my visit to Cornell back in high school, and I remember dreaming then about the chance to work in […]
Month: April 2018
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 […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Profile: Alexandra Malakoff ’20
Name: Allie Malakoff Class year: 2020 Major: Fashion Design Management When did you begin working in the collection and what inspired you to join the CCTC? I began working in the collection my first semester of freshman year. I was inspired by the breadth of variety, in both aesthetics and history, of the collection. I knew […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Profile: Claudia Libow
Name: Claudia Libow Class year: 2019 Major: Fiber Science and Apparel Design – Fashion Design Management When did you begin working in the collection and what inspired you to join the CCTC? I began working in the collection in the Fall of my sophomore year. While taking Professor Green’s class, FSAD 1250: Art, Design and Visual […]
Tiny Tim’s Stage Costume
Blog post by Amanda Dubin ’18. Tiny Tim was born Herbert B. Khaury to a working class immigrant family in Manhattan on April 12, 1932. Tiny Tim is remembered as an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist best known for his rendition of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” which he recorded in his signature quavering […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Profile: Rachel Doran ’19
Name: Rachel Doran Class year: 2019 Major: Fiber Science and Apparel Design – Fashion Design Management When did you begin working in the collection and what inspired you to join the CCTC? I started working in the collection spring semester of my freshman year. I actually found out about the collection when I was visiting […]
Potentially Perilous Fashion
Blog post by Samantha Stern ’17. Fashions come in many forms, but few realize the potentially dangerous aspects of vintage and antique fashion. The term “mad hatter” is common vernacular, and comes from milliner’s occupational exposure to mercury (and, as a result, going “mad as a hatter”) in the late 19th century. Less well known […]
Mini Portraits: An Exploration of Childrenswear in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Blog post by Jacklyn DeVito ’18. The Cornell Costume and Textile Collection holds an array of childrenswear dating back to the eighteenth century. Garments of each time period share common elements, which serve to represent the values and standards of each respective era. As societal expectations of children’s behavior evolved over the 19th and 20th […]
Finding Inspiration for Functional Design
Blog post by Professor Susan M. Watkins. One of the mistakes I think beginning designers make is assuming that old technology and old designs have nothing to offer them. As a functional clothing designer, I found endless inspiration for new designs by looking at ways people have protected themselves in the past. At Cornell, design […]