Someone needs to start a new show called “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Megachurch Pastors.” Too bad Robin Leach isn’t still alive. Over at The Washington Post, Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a piece on Ben Kirby and his Instagram...
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AHA 2016 Fashions
In case you have not seen it, Vanessa Holden has written a great post on the fashion choices made by the historians attending the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. She identifies four styles: The Classics The...
The Author’s Corner with Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Sally Dwyer-McNulty is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. This interview is based on her book Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism(University of North Carolina Press, 2014)....
Clothing of the Future
1939: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtxFFj6eDY] From British Pathe
This Teacher Wore the Same Outfit for 40 Years
Or at least he did in his yearbook photo. Read all about it here....
What to Wear at CPAC
Will you be going to the Conservative Political Action Conference this week? If so, make sure that you dress correctly. No Tom’s Shoes, leggings, jeans, or halter tops. HT: John Smolenski via Facebook
Do Clothes Make the Humanities Professor?
Robert Watts, a professor of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, thinks so. In this piece he reflects on the fashion statements made by all the “frumpy” looking graduate students who taught him in college: The graduate students who taught...
The Story Behind Godey’s Lady Book
I am doing a directed reading this semester with a student who is interested in early American material culture. Today we discussed Richard Bushman’s The Refinement of America. I read this book in graduate school, but upon reading it again...
Going to the Beach: 1870s Style
The Virtual Dime Museum blog has a post on 1870s beach fashions that would make any reasonable person believe in the virtues of progress. It seems like flannel was “in” in 1870. Here is a taste: When you go to...
Wolf: The High Cost of Cheap Fashion
In the eighteenth-century America Quakers (at least a few of them) refused to eat sugar grown on West Indian plantations because it was grown by slave labor. Patriots refused to drink tea that represented the tyranny of the English government....