Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art - Historic Costume & Textiles Collection

April 14 - December 16, 2000 View the exhibition catalog (pdf). View images from this exhibition. "Strive as you will to elevate woman, nevertheless the disabilities and degradation of her dress, together with that large group of false views of the uses of her being and of her relations to man, symbolized and perpetuated by

The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 To The Present, PDF, Fashion

When American Suffragists Tried to 'Wear the Pants' - The Atlantic

Clothing - A History, PDF, Clothing

Wearable History - Restrictiveness

19th century Fashion History Timeline

Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914, PDF, Undergarment

Exhibitions - Historic Costume & Textiles Collection

Wearable History - Restrictiveness

First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

Figure 1 from She Wears the Pants: The Reform Dress as Technology in Nineteenth-Century America

References and Links

The Bibliography of Irish Women's History

Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art - Historic Costume & Textiles Collection