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Teaser Tuesday: Dancer Sally Rand (1939)

Sally Rand - White Peacock Dance, Music Box, 1939 (San Francisco)

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Costume sale at the Museum of Performance and Design

Saturday, June 9, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Choose from thousands of opera, theatre, dance, musical theatre and film-related items. These items are duplicate material from our library collection. Pay one...

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Dance Archives Open House (including Costumes!)

* Dance Archives Open House Museum of Performance and Design, Saturday, June 30, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm On the occasion of the Dance/USA Conference held this year in San Francisco, Museum of Performance and...

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Museum of Performance & Design Rummage Sale January 26

  MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE + DESIGN First Rummage Sale in 20 years!  Saturday, January 26th Veteran’s Building, Fourth Floor, MPD main gallery - Come see what treasures you could snap up for a great deal....

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Southeastern European Folk Dress: A CSA Event with Dr. Elizabeth Barber

Earlier this month I had the rare pleasure of taking a Costume Society of America (CSA) Western Region tour of  Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers, the current exhibition...

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Books in Brief: The Mechanical Smile by Caroline Evans

Many of you will know that I’ve been doing a lot of research into the history of fashion in America. Happily, well-known historian Caroline Evans came out with a book this summer that fills a gap in...

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CSA tour of “Wear to Party” in Ventura, CA

Balenciaga taffeta gown with lace trim, 1955 (Kyoto Costume Institute) A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend the Costume Society of America program including a tour of “Wear to Party” at the...

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More Holiday Gift Books: “Debutantes: When Glamour Was Born”

"Dresses of the early 1900s were often loosely tailored and simple with a slightly raised waistline. During the years between 1915 and the early 1920s, it wasn’t uncommon for a debutantes dress to be...

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New Fashion Encyclopedia (Vol. 3 edited by yours truly!)

  I’m thrilled to share that a project I have been working on since 2012 has finally come to fruition (that is three years people!). Now available, Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to...

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Guest Review: Rei Kawakubo at Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Nadine L. Stewart The key to approaching the latest Costume Institute exhibit [Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, on view to September 4, 2017) is to always keep in mind the...

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