Clothes Tell Stories

Clothes Tell Stories is an on-line Costume Workbook, a web-based resource for museums, students and the general public about how to use costume to tell stories. Costume is extremely evocative and always has an immediate appeal in museums.

Clothes so easily illustrate many kinds of stories because, when correctly used, they bring an extremely personal, engaging aspect to our history.

Costume Committee members – expert costume curators and conservators from museums all over the world - are contributing their expertise in this project. It will illustrate many aspects of working with historical costume which will be useful for non-specialists: terminology, exhibition techniques, successful labels, contemporary collecting, aspects of proper storage and handling, exhibition walk-throughs and much more. 

Since many small and/or specialty museums do not have access to personnel trained in working with costume, we hope Clothes Tell Stories can help teach how to store, handle and show costume and accessories. This will not only bring less-known historical costume out in the open, but will contribute to creating valuable new contacts between museums and ICOM specialists.

Blog note : So happy to have found this site.

Wrap around shorts

A fren asked me to do this many years ago but i never got around to it. Today i saw a tutorial of a beautiful scarf made into this type of shorts. It looked so cool!

Source : http://planb.annaevers.com/en/diy-short-wrap-de-panuelo/

Tiered skirt from t-shirts or different sizes

Colour blocking's still the rage after so many years. The success of this project is in the selection of colours and the sequence. For most 'trouble areas', choose a darker colour/a patterned fabric for the first level of the skirt. This will make a big bum less obvious, reduce panty fabric showing through, hide a protruding tummy, etc.

http://kristinaclemens.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-to-make-colorblock-dress-from-t.html

Ingenuity of Paul Poiret, French fashion designer

This garment is made from just one loooong piece of fabric. No cutting!!

According to curator Harold Koda ; 82nd & Fifth: FRENCH DRESSING by Harold Koda

Poiret constructed this garment by taking one fifteen-foot-long piece of fabric, twisting it, and connecting it with just one seam, leaving openings for the sleeves. “It’s maddening because you would never think to approach the making of a garment in this way before,” says curator Harold Koda. http://met.org/15bboO9 

Paul Poiret (French, 1879–1944) | Paris | 1919

Watch this video to see how this garment was made....
http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/paul-poiret-french-paris-2005.207?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=statusupdate&utm_content=frenchdressing&utm_campaign=82ndandfifth

Crochet by Cantinhodavall

A interesting crochet twist by https://www.facebook.com/cantinhodavall