Please join us to browse a collection of rare books and printed ephemera exploring vernacular fashion and the culture of style.
This is a presentation about clothes, the clothes people wear every day, and how and where they wear them. The clothes that we find ourselves with are bought, accumulated, given, discarded, rediscovered, borrowed and cast off again. Getting dressed can mean many things to us, and this meaning can shift depending on weather, mood, light, company and utility.
There are endless permutations of the idiosyncratic choices individual people make, and a real and tangible beauty, if one cares to look. These are the results of some people looking, on particular days and in particular places over the past forty years.