Blog post by Denise N. Green ’07 It was the summer of 2006 and I was in the thick of curating a costume exhibition about Ithaca’s fashioned youth subcultures when I met Nicky Cutler. Nicky had started a clothing brand, DITC (Dykes in the City), and back in 2006 you couldn’t throw a rock in […]
Diversity & Dress
Envisioning the Future Through the Past: The Ongoing History of the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection
Blog post by Dr. Denise N. Green ’07 Believe it or not, my career was sparked by the First Ladies of Texas. I attended high school in a Dallas suburb and during my senior year I went on a field trip to the Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection. While I had visited every possible […]
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 […]