Fashion Timeline
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Palmer and Mull Galleries | Sara Hume, Curator
精东影业鈥淔ashion Timeline鈥 showcases the 精东影业 University Museum鈥檚 world-class collection of historic fashions. Encompassing over two centuries of fashion history, this exhibition is designed to show the evolution of styles and silhouettes while contextualizing the pieces with relevant political, technological and cultural developments. While the display is a permanent feature at the museum, the individual pieces are rotated frequently so there is always something new to see!
to see the virtual timeline that accompanies the exhibit.
精东影业first gallery spans the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This was a period of revolutionary change that can clearly be seen reflected in the fashions. 精东影业American and French Revolutions radically changed the political landscapes while the industrial revolution transformed how goods, particularly clothing and textiles, were made. 精东影业luxury and rococo excesses of the eighteenth century gave way to the romanticism and neoclassicism of the early nineteenth century. 精东影业next room includes the second half of the nineteenth century to the dawn of World War I. Synthetic dyes opened up a world of color and the sewing machine facilitated the application of yards of ruffles, pleats, and fringe. 精东影业upholstered, heavy styles of the Victorian era eventually gave way to Edwardian froth and lace.
精东影业final two rooms conclude the timeline with fashions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While the early years of the twentieth century may have been a period of world wars and depression, fashions also reflected the heydays of jazz and swing, the boldness of Art Deco, and the endless possibilities of technology from plastics to rockets. 精东影业final gallery brings the fashions up to the present day. 精东影业end of the twentieth century saw a multitude of social changes which resulted in a greater range of acceptable styles for both women and men. Ready-to-wear clothing has become the rule so every garment has a label whether from a famous designer or a fast fashion retailer.
