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    This document provides an overview of object-based research methods for analyzing clothing artifacts. It discusses the history of object collections at museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also profiles several influential researchers in the field like Doris Langley Moore, Anne Buck, Janet Arnold, and Jules David Prown who helped establish methodology. The document also references theorists like Igor Kopytoff, Daniel Miller, and Valerie Steele who informed the theoretical approaches to analyzing artifacts.

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    This document provides an overview of object-based research methods for analyzing clothing artifacts. It discusses the history of object collections at museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also profiles several influential researchers in the field like Doris Langley Moore, Anne Buck, Janet Arnold, and Jules David Prown who helped establish methodology. The document also references theorists like Igor Kopytoff, Daniel Miller, and Valerie Steele who informed the theoretical approaches to analyzing artifacts.

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    Clothing Artefacts - Methods of Analysis and Attribution

    ECTS: 4

    Katarina Nina Simončič

    Associate professor, PhD


    nina.simoncic@ttf.unizg.hr
    INGRID MIDA, ALEXANDRA KIM (2018), The Dress Detective: A
    Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion.

    THE BOOK IS ONLINE

    A BRIEF HISTORY OF OBJECT – BASED RESEARCH WITH DRESS


    ARTIFACTS
    ....CLOTHING THAT IT KEPT
    BEYOND ITS FASHIONABLE
    LIFE OFTEN HAS
    “SYMBOLIC QUALITIES”
    AND HOLD “PERSONAL
    MEMORIES” FOR THE
    OWNER.
    (Amy de la Haye)

    Dior’s classic bar suit from his first


    collection in 1947. Photograph: Laziz
    Hamani/Victoria and Albert Museum,
    London
    Jacket and portrait of Margaret Layton, about 1610 V&A Museum no. T.228-1994
    VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON
    - opened in 1852, and established its first collection od dress

    Empire style dress in Gold embroidered muslin Muslin dress, 1810, Talbot
    embroidered muslin, 1800, dress, Talbot Hughes Hughes Collection
    Talbot Hughes Collection Collection
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN NEW YORK
    - opened in 1866, but the Costume Institute was nost established until 1946

    The redesigned Costume Institute space reopened in May 2014, after a two-year renovation, as the
    Anna Wintour Costume Center with the exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion
    “DRESS” AND “FASHION”

    To all clothing and “the cultural construction


    accessories of emboided identity”
    OBJECT – BASED RESEARCH

    Igor Kopytoff (1986), “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization


    as Process”. In A Appadurai (ed.), The Social Life of Things, Cambridge:
    Cambrideg University Press: 64-91.

    Daniel Miller (2014), “Material Culture”, Berg Fashion Library, online


    resource. Available at: www.bergfashionlibrary.com
    DORIS LANGLEY MOORE (1902-1989)

    Doris Langley Moore Collection Record Card

    Doris Langley Moore (around 1935)


    FASHION MUSEUM IN BATH, ENGLAND
    ANNE BUCK (1910-2005)

    Buck, Anne: Victorian Costume and Costume Accessories (1961).


    Buck, Anne, Cunnington, Phyllis: Children’s Costume in England 1300–1900 (1965)
    Buck, Anne: Dress in Eighteenth Century England (1979)
    Buck, Anne: Thomas Lester, His Lace and the East Midlands Industry 1820–1905 (1981)
    Buck, Anne: Victorian Costume and Costume Accessories (2nd edition, 1984)
    Buck, Anne: In the Cause of English Lace: the Life and Work of Catherine C. Channer 1874–
    1949 (1991)
    Buck, Anne: Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children’s Dress in England 1500–1900
    (1996)
    JANET ARNOLD (1932-1998)
    JULES DAVID PROWN

    1980 “STYLE AS EVIDENCE”, Winterthur Porfolio, 15 (3): 197-210.

    ....style defined as “the way something is done, produced


    or expressed”

    1982 “MIND IN MATTER: AN INTRODUCTION TO MATERIAL


    CULTURE THEORY AND METHOD”, Winterthur Porfolio, 17 (31): 1-
    19.
    VALERIE STEELE

    Prown methodology
    ...provide unique insight into the historic and aesthetic development

    of fashion.
    ALEXANDRA PALMER

    .....assumed that we already have the necessary critical skills


    to evaluate fashion, when in fact it is a reserch skill that is
    learned like any other of scholarship.

    The Handbook od Fashion Studies (2013)


    LOU TAYLOR

    Artifact based
    +
    Theoretical approaches

    2002
    Chanel outfit worn by Diana Vreeland
    Judit Clark and Amy de la Haye (2014), Exhibiting Fashion: Before and After
    1971

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