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Comment on Exhibition Review: “Quicktake: Rodarte” Cooper-Hewitt Museum by Sarah Scaturro

Sarah Scaturro — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:21:32 +0000

Tove, it wasn’t enough and it wasn’t up long enough! Alas, such is the concept behind the “Quicktake” series here at the CH. They’re meant to highlight new and emerging designers by giving the public a quick, tasty, little morsel of their work…

Comment on Issues in Dress Collections: Storage & Moving (Part 1) by Worn Through » Issues In Dress Collection: Deaccessioning

Worn Through » Issues In Dress Collection: Deaccessioning — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:04:46 +0000

[...] responses to my January post on storage issues facing museums with costume collections, were both interesting and insightful. It seems that even [...]

Comment on Dazed by Glamour: ‘Cartier and America’ by Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:07:48 +0000

…Here’s a larger photo of the necklace. Its actually one of the most famous necklaces the company has made. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YrEsDxPEfAc/Ss1yP9C-exI/AAAAAAAAAVU/yuF5U1UTGJg/s1600-h/aa.jpg

Comment on Dazed by Glamour: ‘Cartier and America’ by Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:26 +0000

The necklace toward the bottom with the multiple tiers and the large yellow stone is the Patiala Necklace. I’m in SF right now and wanted to go to this but it doesn’t look like I’m going to make it… Coming back at the end of April, maybe I can catch it then?

Comment on Exhibition Review: “Quicktake: Rodarte” Cooper-Hewitt Museum by Tove Hermanson

Tove Hermanson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:27:53 +0000

I loved your reading more than I loved this particular exhibition (though I enjoy Rodarte’s collections generally). Maybe part of the problem of the display was… it wasn’t enough!

Comment on Wonderful Wizard of Oz: An analysis by Eva

Eva — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:58:58 +0000

Thank you for sharing this essay. I found it very interesting and useful in my attempt to design an abstract costume for an Oz character who is going to be placed in a different type of setting (a sci-fi story).

Comment on Museum Sale: Augusta Auction Company by Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:36:37 +0000

Well, so much for the sanctity of “public trust”. I’m just heartbroken at what’s happened to the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, hopefully this will be the final indignity.

Comment on Call for Book Entries: One-Yard Craft Projects by rebecca

rebecca — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:14 +0000

Thanks Monica!!!

Comment on Mourning Costumes and Religion by Bruce David Wilner

Bruce David Wilner — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:14:17 +0000

We recently interred my 86-year-old father. After considerable, albeit lightning-fast, research, we were steered to a small, family-owned funeral home that was the only authentic Jewish establishment in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area: the others were swallowed up by goyish mega-firms that ascribe to “approved” rituals and procedures. My question is this: why am I unable to find any constancy among the so-called “traditional” graveclothes, the tachrichim? The tachrichim on display at our chosen funeral home (hand-woven by a Kenyan Jewess, and displayed on a female mannequin) looked, for all the world, like something straight out of a Blake’s entombed Jesus or a Renaissance interpretation of Lazarus: the two-piece garment formed a hooded (cowled, more accurately) robe, including a sudarium to fully cover the face. I see nothing like this suit of clothes on the numerous (well, not all that numerous, actually) Web sites that purport to depict “authentic” Jewish burial shrouds.

Comment on Online Research Resources for Fashion Historians by Heather Vaughan

Heather Vaughan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:30 +0000

Jo – you may be in luck! The Sears Catalog Archive looks like it might be inching towards putting the catalog archive online: http://www.searsarchives.com/index.htm