Private tour of REAL CLOTHES, REAL LIVES: 200 Years of What Women Wore
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Join Rebecca Shea '99, and the Smith College Club of New York City for a private tour of REAL CLOTHES, REAL LIVES: 200 Years of What Women Wore.
This inaugural exhibition, co-curated by Smith Professor Kiki Smith '71 and Rebecca Shea '99, with New York Historical curators, showcases items from Smith College’s extensive clothing collection. Due to light sensitivity, a majority of the garments in the exhibition were changed over in mid-January. Explore a whole new rotation of clothes from the Smith College collection!
The collection focuses on the everyday clothing of ordinary women and provides insight into the lives of women, across time and culture. Due to light sensitivity, a majority of the garments in the exhibition were changed over in mid-January. Explore a whole new rotation of clothes from the Smith College collection!
Rebecca Shea is an independent researcher, writer, curator, and exhibition designer who specializes in historic clothing. She holds a Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Smith College. Rebecca has curated and designed over thirty acclaimed exhibitions, including “Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore” (2024), and “Helen Gould & Madam CJ Walker: Irvington Neighbors Empowering Women” (2019). In addition to her curatorial work, she has taught in the MA Fashion Studies program at FIT and has consulted for the corporate art collections of Pfizer, Hines Real Estate, and Mitsui Fudosan America as well as the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. Her work has appeared in several publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and WWD.
Due to space limitations, the tour is limited to 20 Smith College Club members. If you can’t make this event, the exhibit will be at the New York Historical through June 22, so gather your friends and visit the museum!
For more information, please see:
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/real-clothes-real-lives-200-years-of-what-women-wore
https://www.smith.edu/news-events/news/smith-college-historic-clothing-collection-goes-road
https://www.smith.edu/news-events/news/womens-clothes-and-stories-they-tell
Private tour of REAL CLOTHES, REAL LIVES: 200 Years of What Women Wore
When: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Location: The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street), New York NY 10024
Please meet in the lobby at 3:45 PM
Registration Information: Members of The New York Historical: Free| Non-Members of the New York Historical: Adults - $21, Seniors - $16
Limited to 20 SCC NYC members.
TNYH MEMBER | ADULT TICKET | SENIOR TICKET
Where:
THE New York HISTORICAL
170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY 10024
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