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eTextile Showcase at Maker Faire Bay Area
Saturday, May 21 will bring the eTextile Showcase at Maker Faire Bay Area (at 3pm in booth #300 at Arc Attack Stage, Fiesta Hall, in San Mateo). I’m particularly enamored with the Tron Costume by...
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Finding Resources: My trip to Bookmark Bookstore
The Bookmark Bookstore It seems like I’m always running into fashion history. Over the memorial day weekend, it cropped up – not surprisingly – at a used bookstore in Old Oakland. Bookmark Bookstore,...
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Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood icon was styled by William Travilla
Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla By Andrew Hansford with Karen Homer (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books) What I found unique about this book was not the abundant...
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Books in Brief: “Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film”
* If you could see the stack of books on my ‘to do list’ you might run for the hills, but you also might sit down for a good long read. There are some great reviews ahead – so keep an eye out. First up...
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Shirley Temple (Black) 1928-2014
With the sad news of the passing of Shirley Temple (Black) in today’s New York Times, I thought it would be appropriate to remember some of her contributions to film costume, fashion, and popular...
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Another Prince Tribute
There is no way I can write a definitive history of Prince’s Fashion a few hours after his shocking death. The scope and depth of his impact both musically and culturally, are far too great. Suffice...
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Revisiting a “mini history of the maxi dress”
Jezebel is re-promoting a maxi dress article they published in 2015 that mentions something I’d written on the subject from 2008. The 1,000+ comments (and counting) on that post are a gold-mine in...
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