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		<title>Museum Life: opening nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening nights for Assistant Curators are not all glitz and glamour.  Although they are filled with excitement these feeling are often overridden by the madness of final exhibition preparations. Cleaning the floor, dusting showcases and sorting out last minute invite lists are some of the things I have done on opening exhibition nights. This usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum Life: numbering objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physically numbering textiles and fashion is a big part of my job at the moment. I’ve been cataloguing and researching the historic lace collection and basic museum practices include making sure all collection objects have their correct accession or registration numbers attached to them in some way. With the lace collection this includes sewing small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Teaching Fashion: Monastic Dress</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2012/01/13/on-teaching-fashion-monastic-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Murgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year always leads me to reflect on my past so that I can set new goals.  This year will mark the start of my third year teaching fashion as an adjunct instructor.  Looking back at this experience, I have identified one main key to success.  This key will work in any course, across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Conference: The Body in the Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2012/01/11/upcoming-conference-the-body-in-the-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, the Museum of London will host an innovative and timely look at developments in the display of dress, and the evolution of mannequins as surrogate bodies for exhibiting historic dress. It is to be titled: New Approaches to the Display of Dress. I&#8217;ll be attending the conference and reporting for Worn Through, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum life: When exhibitions travel</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2012/01/06/museum-life-when-exhibitions-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to interactive nature of this exhibition, it was designed for a specific space. When it was decided that Frock Stars would travel to regional and interstate venues in Australia there were many questions as to how the exhibition would translate into a touring exhibition. How would the exhibition fit into multiple venues? How can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum life: Identifying gender</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/12/23/museum-life-identifying-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History of Dress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago a volunteer asked how to identify the difference between little girls and little boys dresses from the 19th Century. She had an example from her museum collection and wanted me to confirm whether a girl or a boy wore it. It is confronting when you get asked something like this, there are so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial Australian dress: An Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/12/09/colonial-australian-dress-an-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is mostly based on a tour I gave of the fashion collection at the Powerhouse Museum for a group of NIDA costume students. It is also inspired by my work on the Australian Dress Register. I am a strong believer that dress and fashion research should include close examination of actual examples of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Bytes</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/12/06/fashion-bytes-39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently ran a piece about &#8216;Creating Museum Pieces Straight Off the Catwalk&#8216;. The piece is mostly a biographical piece on shoe designer Sultan Darmaki, but it does discuss the acquisition of Darmaki&#8217;s &#8216;Lydia&#8217; shoe from his first ever collection by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Shonagh Marshall-In Step with a Fashion Curator</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/11/16/interview-with-fashion-curator-shonagh-marshall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/11/16/interview-with-fashion-curator-shonagh-marshall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted on the opening of Shoes for Show: Shoes as Sculptural Objects by javari.co.uk.  The exhibition was held to promote the luxury shoe e-commerce site, and to heighten awareness of the beauty of footwear as design artefact. This is how i would describe the dazzling and coherent exhibition, but I am pleased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum Visit: York Castle Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.wornthrough.com/2011/08/03/museum-visit-york-castle-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early July, I had the opportunity to visit York to attend a conference at York University on the topic of Theatre and Ghosts. There were a number of papers presented that focused on costume related topics, notably on theatre costumes in the collection of the V&#38;A, the work of wardrobe staff backstage at the [...]]]></description>
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