Attention Cornell Students: Apply for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellowship in the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection! The late Dr. Charlotte Jirousek, former curator of the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection (CCTC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, was passionate about integrating the CCTC into the educational experience […]
Author: Denise N. Green
WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline
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, […]
As Smart as it Looks
Blog post by Dorothy Schefer Faux ’69. That was the tagline Vogue senior editors decided on when they “jumped ship” lex nd left Si Newhouse’s publishing empire for Rupert Murdoch’s to start Mirabella – a new kind of style magazine for the “post-modern” woman, one who was pursuing a life outside the home. A woman who needed a […]
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 […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Profile: Jacklyn DeVito ’18
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 […]
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 […]