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Tickets: $29 (Senior $24; Members $5), includes admissionLearn more: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/gallery-tour-real-clothes-real-lives7?date=2025-02-06
Discover the everyday clothing of ordinary women on a docent-led tour of Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, an exhibition that highlights everything from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers' uniforms. Showcasing items from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection that are on view in a museum for the first time, this exhibition traces how women's roles have changed and evolved dramatically over the decades across the spectrum of race and class. Each piece of clothing holds rich stories about the woman who wore it and who made it, the materials used, and the context in place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments on display are modest and inexpensive, rarely saved or displayed in a museum setting. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever making-do, and many are influenced by popular styles and trends of their era.
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170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way, 10024, 170 Central Park W, New York, NY 10024-5152, United States,New York, New York, Manhattan
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