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Costume Journal

Volume 34, Issue 1, 2004

The Tennis Girl -

Cover Photo - "The Tennis Girl" by Gleneagles is one of the many marketing posters in the collection of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in south west London, Enlgand. See Calendar section for details on their current exhibit Striking Images, featuring the golden years of tennis posters, from 1890-1940. (In Britain, August/September 2003).

Survival by Design - Alaskan Coastal Design

Page 2 - CALENDAR: EXHIBITS & EVENTS - Exhibition opens May 12, 2004 at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A Vivienne Westwood Corset

Page 4 - Photo from In Britain, April/May 2004

A View of the new Bath Costume Museum galleries

Page 4

A View of the new Bath Costume Museum galleries

Detail - Bonus view

A View of the new Bath Costume Museum galleries

Detail - Bonus view

Another view of the newly renovated galleries of the Bath Costume Museum

Page 5 - CALENDAR: EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Gloves from Sanquar

Page 6 "JEAN COCTEAU'S GLOVES: AN ADVENTURE IN FORENSIC KNITTING" by Shirley Scott

Gloves from Cumbria

Page 7 "JEAN COCTEAU'S GLOVES: AN ADVENTURE IN FORENSIC KNITTING" by Shirley Scott

Dutch Woman at Large & Gerard ter Borch's "Curiosity"

Page 7 - "DEVORA NEUMARK: DUTCH WOMAN AT LARGE", by Edwina Sutherland

Dutch Woman at Large in the gardens of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Page 8 - "DEVORA NEUMARK: DUTCH WOMAN AT LARGE" by Edwina Sutherland

Felt Shepherd's "Goat" Coat, Iran, 1974.

Page 9 - EXHIBIT REVIEW: A FELT FEELING: FROM HOME TO HANDBAG AT THE ROM by Marguerite Newell.

Gift of Dr. Louis D. Levine. Photo: Brian Boyle, ROM

White and red wool felt hat.

Page 9 - EXHIBIT REVIEW: A FELT FEELING: FROM HOME TO HANDBAG AT THE ROM by Marguerite Newell. Designer copy (by Sally Victor) of the hat worn by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower to the Eisenhower presidential inauguration, Washington, 1953. Gift of designer Mrs. Sally Victor, New York. ROM966.10 Photo: Karla Livingston

Posing in the Art Deco Exhibit at the ROM

Page 10 - "BECOME A FRIEND OF TEXTILES AND COSTUMES, ROM" by Mary Humphries -

Peter Kaellgren, Curator of European Art, and Patricia Harris, Chair of the Dept.of Museum Volunteers Textile & Clothing Committee, pose in the Art Deco Exhibit at the ROM

THE NEW FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM, LONDON

 

Page 10 - MUSEUM REVIEW:THE NEW FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM, LONDON by Karen E. Lambton. Founded by Zandra Rhodes, and housed in Ricardo Legorreta's brightly coloured modernist building, the Fashion and Textile Museum is the first dedicated exhibition space in the UK to celebrate the achievements of a global fashion industry. As well as showing various exhibitions, the FTM houses a digital archive centre for students of fashion and design. See Calendar listings for information on current exhibits, page 4.

Interchangeable panels held with Velcro in a John Ribbe mix-and-match design. Techno Fashion, Ch. Six: "Transformables."

 

Page 10 - BOOK REVIEW by Mary Humphries.

Techno Fashion, by Bradley Quinn. Berg Publishers, 2002, distributed by New York University Press. 230 pp, many b/w illustrations, 8 pages of colour. Hbk, US$68.00, ISBN 1- 85973-599-1; pbk, US$23.50, ISBN 1-85973-620-3. NYU Press: 1-800-996-NYUP



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