Friday, October 9, 2009

Class Visit - French 183

On October 8, 2009, the VCCC also hosted Susan Hiner's class "Fashion and Modernity." Here's a slideshow with some images from their visit.




You can click on the slideshow to go to the Picasa Web Album with the images; from there you can see a full screen view, or download your own copy of an image.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Both visits look like they were a lot of fun!

Are the pieces the students are wearing from the (active) costume collection? How did you pick those costumes?

I recognize one of the pieces on the table! Ah, memories.

Arden Kirkland said...

Hi, Megan!

Actually, the pieces on the table and on mannequins are from the historic collection. The pieces that they're wearing are all reproductions, from our stock of theatre costumes. Miss Hummel usually chooses a selection of costumes to cover as much of a range of history as possible, with a piece or two representing the 1600's and 1700's, then every twenty years or so through the 1800's to about 1920. In this particular group, no one tried on the Spanish farthingale from the mid 1600's, which is quite fun - you can see a student wearing the farthingale at the end of the slideshow in a previous post about a visit in 2007.