I had a lot of fun recently being interviewed by journalist Denise Winterman for her BBC News piece, “Fashion: History’s Most Shocking Styles.” Although there are any number of surprising trends ...
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Entry E: Yale & Vassar Sibling Style
Click HERE to read more about the Yale-Vassar connection between Karen and Richard Frede. Frede wrote Entry E in 1958, and here are the siblings at Karen’s graduation from Vassar one year later. IMAGE: Courtesy of Karen Frede Nangle ’56
Richard Frede’s Entry E, 1958
My latest piece for Ivy-Style was a really fun project as, I met Richard Frede’s sister, Karen Frede Nangle, during my Vassar research. Karen graduated from Vassar in 1959, a few years after her brother graduated from Yale. This book is something of a pulp novel from 1958 that eventually became a bestseller and considers life and […]
“Fashioning an Education” – Digital Exhibition
If you were unable to get to see the exhibition, “Fashioning an Education: 150 Years of Vassar Students and What They Wore,” this summer, you can now see the virtual exhibition online HERE courtesy of the Vassar College Costume Collection. IMAGE: Courtesy of the Vassar College Costume Collection
Mira Lehr, Vassar ’56 on Tomboy Style
I was thrilled to be able to write for Lizzie Garrett’s blog, and soon to be book published by Rizzoli, Tomboy Style. Earlier this month, I shared a snippet of one of my oral histories from Mira Lehr ’56, and an original photograph courtesy of her private collection. Click HERE for the full article.
Bermudas and Blazers at Vassar
I was recently asked to be a guest writer on Vassar’s style and culture magazine, Contrast, which was a lot of fun. You can read my article, “Bermudas and Blazers: Redefining the ‘Ivy Look’ at Vassar in the 1950s” online HERE. IMAGE: Courtesy of Contrast magazine
Get the Vassar Look…
So, have you ever wanted to try out some of this iconic Vassar Style I’ve been talking about? Well, the writer Lizzie Garrett has created a shopping piece just for you. Head over to her blog, Tomboy Style, and get the Vassar look HERE.
Fashioning an Education: 150 Years of Vassar Students and What They Wore
The Vassar College Costume Collection’s Sesquicentennial exhibition is now on display and it was an honour to be involved. In the section on the 1950s, you can see two of the garments I collected during my research on display (a VC Blazer and an evening gown) and accompanying text from myself also. The faculty and […]
The Yale-Vassar Bike Race
My latest post for Ivy Style is now online and you can read it HERE. As part of Ivy Style’s “Bicycle Week,” I’ve written about the Yale-Vassar Bike Race tradition in the 1950s, which shows that Vassar style most certainly had a sense of humour!
A Visit to the Vassar College Costume Collection
“Fashioning an Education: 150 Years of Vassar Students and What They Wore” May 16-June 12 at the Palmer Gallery, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) PHOTO: Vassar College Costume Collection http://blogs.vassar.edu/vccc/ It was my pleasure to return to Vassar last week and spend some time with the students and faculty who are currently working on the exhibition showcasing […]
James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities, 2011
On April 8th & 9th, I attended the 2011 James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The title of the conference this year was “Communities, Kinship and Culture: The Formation and Expression of Identities,” and I presented a paper entitled, “Fashioning the 1950s ‘Vassar Girl’: Vassar Undergraduate Identity and […]
