It has taken me quite some time to find my sea legs as a dress historian. I have recounted how a single passage in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North & South led me to discovering the field of dress history, but my initial focus was the clothing and textiles of Jane Austen’s novels for the very simple reason that I…
Author: brenna
“Indian Shawls”
With Monica’s guest post, and subsequent discussions by Lizzie at The Vintage Traveler, I have been inspired to revisit a topic dear to my heart — Kashmir shawls, and their European imitations. ~~ ‘I have spared no expense in [Edith’s] trousseau,’ were the next words Margaret heard. ‘She has all the beautiful Indian shawls and…
For the love of Paisley
I am happy to present my first ever guest post from my Worn Through colleague and one of my dear friends, Monica D. Murgia. Monica has an MA in Fashion & Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from FIT. Her focus was curatorial, with an emphasis on twentieth century fashion designers. Her current research interests…
Savagery and Satire
SATIRE 2b. the employment, in speaking or writing, of sarcasm, irony, ridicule, etc. in exposing, denouncing, deriding, or ridiculing vice, folly, indecorum, abuses, or evils of any kind. — Oxford English Dictionary “I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through my work… Let’s break…
Tartan Tinted Ramblings 