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February 7, 2014
in Art & Architecture

Olympic Fashions: Elegance in an Age of Crisis

February 7, 2014
in Art & Architecture

Today, the exhibition Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s opens at The Museum at FIT. The show looks at women’s clothing and menswear, from a global perspective, during a decade when truly modern clothing came to be. The forces behind the changes in fashion in the

August 9, 2011
in American History, Business, Economics, Humanities, Social Science

Notes From A Native New Yorker: Shrinking Displays of the Department Store

August 9, 2011
in American History, Business, Economics, Humanities, Social Science

Michelle Stein— In The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960, Richard Longstreth documents the development of the department store as it moves from “a great, all-inclusive emporium that helped define the character and the purpose of the city” to its transformation into shopping centers and malls. Here in New York City,