Now online: The Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties
The Fashion Institute of Technology has a new virtual exhibit put together by their graduate students comparing the two dress revolutions of the 20th Century. They offer up garments and fashion illustrations as well as photographs to compare these two eras when youth was ascendant. FIT notes that “for the first time, this student-led project is presented solely online, with the class working together remotely.” They overcame the challenge, and do a wonderful job juxtaposing garments and issues from the eras and the influence of the 1920s on the 1960s. And since so many of us can’t get out, the show comes to us.
You see first in the images a Paul Poiret evening dress made of gold silk chiffon with beads and rhinestones from 1926 and then a Mila Schön dress made of linen from around 1969. Many more images are online.
Click into the Extras and you will even find a sew-off: Mary Brooks Picken’s One-Hour Dress and a 1960s counterpart.
Go here for the exhibit: https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/roaring-and-swinging.php