Women’s FASHIONS IN THE LATE 1800S FULLY LIVED UP TO MARK TWAIN’s
moniker for the era, the GILDED AGE. Elaborate construction, rich
colors, lavish fabrics and trim, and general love of excess typified
high styles of the 1870s through 1890s. In this, they mirrored design
in architecture, decorative arts, and interior design, as seen in our
current exhibit, “Illuminating Design: The Deocoration and
Technology of E.F. Caldwell and Co., 1895-1959
[https://www.dar.org/museum/exhibitions].” But change was in the
air, and a new archetype, the New Woman, was about to transform
women’s clothing along with her role in society.Join us for this
discussion to revel in the gorgeous, and supremely impractical,
fashions of the Gilded Age and peek at the new modes of the
Progressive Era which followed.
Speaker: Alden O'Brien, Curator of Costume and Textiles
culture
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