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Category Archives: Fashion History Museum
FHM’s Tango Tea
Tango Teas were a popular pastime in polite society from the early 1910s well into the early 1930s. Dressed for the afternoon in hats and gloves, ladies and gentlemen took tea in palm-filled hotel courts while viewing a fashion parade … Continue reading
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Archival Fonds – You Never Know What You Are Going to Get…
Fonds is a word borrowed from the French to describe an archival collection from a single source. It is the same in both singular and plural which is awkward because ‘a fonds’ doesn’t flow off the tongue as easily as … Continue reading
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Donations 2017
We had some wonderful donations come into the museum this past year – so many that we have been working right through the holidays to catch up on thank-you letters and tax receipts, so they are on their way! We … Continue reading
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Jane Austen’s Country Ball
This past Saturday we held our first, of what we hope will become an annual, costume ball. In honour of our exhibition The World of Jane Austen 1792 – 1817, the theme was a Regency ball. 85 guests, not everyone … Continue reading
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Exhibition: Mode Canada 150 September 13 – October 27
The FHM Pops Up in Toronto with an exhibition for Mode Canada 150 – Then, Now, Next. Fifty garments from the FHM are currently on display in the new Yorkville Village in downtown Toronto (second floor overlooking Whole Foods). We … Continue reading
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CAMBRIDGE — The sculptured lower torso of Michelangelo’s David is sandwiched by two red fields. In his right hand, the Goliath-slaying rock is clutched. And covering the naked David’s privates? Not a fig leaf, as was added to a Victorian … Continue reading
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Fashioning Canada Since 1867 article
The latest article about Fashioning Canada Since 1867: 150 years of Canadian fashions – Bill Doucet | Cambridge Times While Canada’s contribution to fashion may be somewhat underappreciated, there are garments that are internationally known. Take for instance a Russian group that … Continue reading
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FHM in the news – Two Recent articles about the FHM
NUVO magazine, by Deirdre Kelly FASHIONING CANADA SINCE 1867 Sesquicentennial style at Ontario’s Fashion History Museum. The fuchsia and orange gown by Toronto designer Lucian Matis that Sophie Grégoire Trudeau wore to the state dinner in Washington with U.S. President … Continue reading