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SFPUL Tour of Mudd Library: "Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th Century"

Join the Student Friends at Mudd Library to hear from curators, April Armstrong *14 and Emma Paradies, about the exhibit "Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th Century." In the ...

Fashion expert explains why ‘survival bias’ makes it seem like 19th century Victorian gowns were much smaller than they were

Fashion experts explain that survival bias can often account for it seeming that there were only smaller sizes in the past.
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Only the clothes on her back clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States Laura F. Edwards

"Only the Clothes on Her Back tells the history of law and commerce in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War through textiles and the legal principles associated with them. Those ...