Posted by Alexandra on Feb 27, 2013 in Events |
The Toronto Vintage Clothing and Textile Show and Sale, formerly held at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, is back this year at the Ontario Science Centre on Sunday March 3rd. Open from 10am to 5pm there will be the opportunity to see and buy a wonderful array of clothing and textiles from vintage designer fashions to quilts, linens and laces. There’ll also be samplers, sewing related items and jewellery. Admission is $8.00 (12s and under free). Partial proceeds to the Canadian Cancer Society. For further information please call or email June C. Troy (905) 666-0523 junetroy@sympatico.ca or visit www.torontovintageshow.com The Ontario Science Centre is...
Posted by Alexandra on Jan 23, 2013 in Costume related, General, Publications |
A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform by Christina Bates is the first and only in-depth analysis of the attire worn by the largest workforce in the health care system. The book explores the role of the nurse’s uniform in creating nursing identity for over a hundred years. Christina is the curator for the History of Canadian Home Life at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Her work on nursing began in 1999, with the creation of the Canadian Nursing History Collection. In 2005 she was chief curator of the exhibition ‘A Caring Profession: centuries of Nursing in Canada’ and co-editor of On All frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian...
Posted by Alexandra on Jan 20, 2013 in Events, Publications |
The Joseph Brant Museum is pleased to welcome Fashion History Museum curator Jonathan Walford on Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss his traveling exhibition, “Nuclear Fashion: Selling Style to Suburbia 1946-1964”. There will also be a book signing for Mr. Walford’s latest book, “1950s American Fashion”. For more information about the lecture, please contact Paul Stone, Curator, at (905) 634-3556. To find out more the exhibition visit the Joseph Brant Museum website....
Posted by admin on Dec 15, 2012 in Costume related |
BIG is mounted in the Patricia Harris Gallery of Costume and Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on Level 4 in the Museum’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Opened in November 2012 the exhibition’s diverse objects, many never before displayed to the public, span the globe. All have been drawn from the ROM’s renowned collection of approximately 50,000 textiles and costumes. A stunning display, the installation showcases 40 objects that, in one way or another, are BIG: big in size, big in historical significance, big news, created by a big name artist (Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Vivienne Tam, Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent, among them), or, simply, carry a...
Posted by admin on Dec 1, 2012 in General |
As the winter holiday season is upon us I would like to send wishes for a belated Happy Chanukah and a Merry Christmas to the members of the Costume Society of Ontario. This is a time for family, for reflection and to dress in our best. May all of our members truly enjoy this festive season. I am very excited about being CSO’s new Chair and look forward to sharing some of my ideas on how to keep the CSO growing and to strengthen our membership. I hope to find ways for us to help each other to reach goals, to be successful, to work together as a group...
Posted by admin on Nov 1, 2012 in Costume related |
“Cross-Dressing in Combat” is the second of two talks on DRESSING FOR WAR by Paul Federico, now Vice-Chair of the CSO. It will be given Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 7 pm at the TOLL KEEPER’S MUSEUM, Toronto (northwest corner of Davenport Road and Bathurst Street); information: www.tollkeeperscottage.ca; (no phone number); tickets at the door. “Cross-Dressing in Combat,” will be a look at role reversal, gender bending and the art, happenstance, tricks and foibles of men as women and women as men and their effect on battles, politics and the times they lived...
Posted by admin on Sep 15, 2012 in Costume related, Links |
CSO has a Facebook Page, active since late June 2012; link below and live on our Links page. Posts may be random items related to fashion and costume history generally including: Fashionality exhibition at the McMichael , exhibitions at the Design Exchange, the V&A in London, FIT & Met in New York and more; links to various articles about fashion or costume, and on as far and wide as those observing the field find interesting. Click here for Link to Facebook page....
Posted by admin on Sep 14, 2012 in Costume related |
Absolutely Vintage Clothing Sale. When: Saturday, October 20 from 10 am to 5 pm Where: Maple Cottage, 62 Laing Street, Toronto South of Queen St. East, one block East of Leslie Carefully collected from fabulous Ontario estates, this Absolutely Vintage Sale features men’s and women’s clothing from the 1890s through the 1970s, costume jewellery, textiles, accessories and more. Gadabout www.gadabout.ca, Eclectisaurus www.eclectisaurus.com, & Angela McCool angela@mccool.ca have combined their considerable inventories to make this a not-to-be-missed dale. You may well find some treasures...
