- 21. Handling Clothes
- (Working with clothes)
- ... for safe handling, storage, and transportation Plan to have time to mount the dress properly for photography Pattern taking Mounting costume for exhibition Conclusion Helpful sources of ...
- 22. Guidelines
- (Working with clothes)
- ... as possible (see also Documentation and Dress and personal narrative) No ballpoint pens! Accessioning Record as much information as time permits, using pencil when working with the object ...
- 23. Dangerous Costume
- (Working with clothes)
- ... such as from moth balls, fly strips, old stocks of chemicals in supply storage, etc. See Nancy Odegaard, Alyce Sadongei, Marilen Pool: Addressing the Problem: The Team Approach (2005) on compiling a history ...
- 24. Costume Idioms
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... English language. Reprinted with kind permission from the Using English website All dressed up and nowhere to go You're prepared for something that ...
- 25. Digital Costume Display - The Kings’ Costumes
- (Displaying clothes)
- ... a specific segment, from children’s introductions to complex technical text for the museum professional. There are patterns for reconstructions or fancy dress as well as the cultural and political history ...
- 26. Useful Addresses
- (Working with clothes)
- Dorothea Nicolai ICOM Costume Committee boardmember Planning a project often means materializing: where to find things you need. The following addresses are ones I have worked with for over ...
- 27. Anna Maria, the Queen’s Midget
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... years after her death, and is still part of the Royal Collections at Rosenborg Castle. Undressing the figure for conservation revealed that she wore miniature stays, hip pads, undergarments, a fashionable ...
- 28. Take a Closer Look at Costume
- (Working with clothes)
- ... We suggest that you start to examine the three main technology areas of dress. A more detailed documentation enhances the value of the costume collection e.g. material culture studies, textile/dress history. ...
- 29. History in a Purse
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... procession: she was accompanied throughout by two exotically dressed men, her Egyptian carers, and a herd of a hundred cows that provided her with milk. The procession drew hordes of people who came from ...
- 30. Clothing and Collecting Policies
- (Working with clothes)
- Alexandra Kim ICOM Costume Committee board member Dress in museum collections offers fantastic possibilities for telling stories but sometimes its potential is hidden by the way it’s been ...
- 31. 1970s Exhibition, Munich
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... organising a fairly complete collection but also to record the full documentation and place the garments in their social and political context. When collecting historical dress we just get the special ...
- 32. 1962 Dress Memories
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... contribute a 1962 dress memory. 1962 was a year defined by the Cuban Missile Crisis and Marilyn Monroe’s death, when the charts were filled with music from Elvis Presley, Françoise Hardy and Neil ...
- 33. Social and Digital Media
- (Displaying clothes)
- ... people engage with you through social media you can begin to talk to them, find out what they like and tell them about your dress related events, exhibitions and collections. It can also help you make ...
- 34. Creative Labels for Displays of Clothing and Fashion
- (Displaying clothes)
- ... luggage tags for an exhibition about travel, clapperboards for an exhibition about film costume or invitations for an exhibition about party dresses. Use materials which have a connection to the ...
Acid-free
burn test
Feathers
Social
dress
sash
labels
symbolism
mechanical aids
Prince Frederik's coat
Rosenborg Castle
1950s
Knitting
vintage fashion
tradition
stripes
ribbon
Preparing the public
outloans
Queen Juliane Marie
self couching
fabrics
Photographs
purse
accessioning
Angel
split stitch
Resource
Hmong
crewel stitch
Nylon
warp
Brazilian
Princess Margaret
Ramie
collecting costume
Twitter
pattern
interlacing and intertwining
protection from evil
media
marking and labeling
Ponchos
20th century
materials
donor
theatre
Useful
transportation
embroidery
digital
damage
Preparing
portrait
1970s
Ethics
date
copy
Flax
Silk