Blog post by Rina Takaoka ’24. This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Akiko Yosano, a Japanese post-classical poetess, once wrote: “Beautiful are women’s garments Brimming with the unuttered feelings of women’s hearts” [1]. […]
Special occasion dress
Rationing Nuptials
Blog post by Mattie Nguyen This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Weddings have long been days of tradition, ceremony, ritual, and rite of passage. Many mark their wedding day as one of the most […]
Gertrude Heim Klemm’s Deadly Wedding Dress
Blog post by Maya Pierce ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. What does a bride wear to a wedding that doubles as a death sentence? For 1930s socialite Gertrude Heim Klemm the answer […]
Guatemalan huipil
Blog post by Rebekah Elizabeth Ten Hagen, ’23 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. This Guatemalan huipil (figures 1-6) was given to Charlotte Conable and her husband, Barber Conable Jr. ‘42, 7th President of […]
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 […]
The Jallayeh: A Palestinian Wedding Gown
Blog post by Amanda Denham MA ’17 Part of my job here at the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection is to research and evaluate our items to determine how they contribute to our collection as a whole. Collections are just that: they are a sum of their parts. Sometimes I open a box and find […]
Martha Van Rensselaer in Belgium
Blog post by Eileen Keating. In 1923, at the age of 58, Martha Van Rensselaer was selected by the National League of Women Voters as one of America’s twelve most influential women. This honor was in recognition of her twenty-three years of pioneering work at Cornell in the new field of home economics. Home economics […]