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A Life of Its Own
In thinking about dress as a situated body practice, consider the relationship between a garment and the body wearing it. Is it reciprocal, transactional, symbiotic? When a body moves in a garment, how does the garment react? As vintage fashion…
A Lively Affair (an anti-suffrage film)
An "Anti" (the term used for those against suffrage) film from 1912 portraying suffragists dressed as men and gambling. The implication was that if women got the right to vote they would become manly and, further, emasculate men. There was a fear…
A star (and her dress) is born
William Travilla's dress pattern for Marilyn Monroe's costume in The Seven-Year Itch