Title

Fashion Unraveled Colloquium: Dr. Carolyn Dowdell "Gertrude Savile's Green Damask"

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Dowdell, Carolyn

Date

2018-09-29

Description

Inspired by the MFIT exhibition Fashion Unraveled and organized by MFIT and the Fashion Research Network, this one-day colloquium explored the concepts of memory, wear, and imperfection in fashion. Speakers focused on imperfect garments and the significance of dressing as a habitual, intimate, and ephemeral act.

Carolyn Dowdell is a dress historian with an MA and a PhD, both specializing in 18th-century clothing construction with an emphasis on object-based research. Her PhD specifically focused on reuse and alteration of such clothing. To date, she has examined approximately 500 extant 18th-century garments in UK and North American collections. Carolyn contributed to the 2016 DAR Museum exhibition An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution with an essay and by drafting scaled patterns of displayed garments for the exhibition catalog. She is also interested in reproduction as a research methodology, most recently displaying an alteration project at this year's CSA symposium in Williamsburg.

Type

Moving Image

Subject

Clothing and dress

Eighteenth century

Fashion

Damask weaving

Textile design

Great Britain

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000505