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Spring 2002

The Art of French Fashion at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

The latest costume exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, features twenty examples of excellence in costume workmanship from France dating from the 1760s through the 1920s.

Carol Dean Krute, Curator of Costume and Textiles at the Wadsworth Atheneum, notes several “waves” of Franco-mania by Americans throughout this almost two hundred year-period. The first wave occurred in the eighteenth century, and is represented by a woman’s brocaded silk gown, and a man’s tan velvet suit. An American craving of all things French reached another apex in the mid-late nineteenth century, with the opening of the International Exhibition in Paris in the late 1860s. One innovation from this period is the princess line, which eliminated a waist seam, seen on the garment in the accompanying figure, above.

Perhaps the most well-known wave of French style in America occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It was about this time that couturiers such as the House of Worth, Doucet, Chanel, Lanvin, Patou, and Vionnet, among others, cast their spell on American women (a sub-theme of the exhibition touches upon the role of women in running many of the couture houses at this time).

The exhibition also features the transition of jewelry in French fashion, with examples of Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco jewelry.

The exhibition was inspired by the loan exhibition Matières de Reves: Stuff of Dreams from the Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which is on view at the museum from June 1 to August 11, 2002. The Art of French Fashion will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum from March 16 through August 18, 2002. For information, please call (860) 278-2670, or visit . TDD is (860) 278-0294.

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Day dress, c. 1867

Label: Enout & Cie./Robes & Confections/25 Place Vendome/Paris

Bright blue silk grosgrain, chenille fringe

Gift of Miss Elizabeth Russell Hooker, 1962.344

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Evening dress, c. 1925

Label: Jeanne Lanvin/Paris Hiver 1925-26

Balck silk with pink rose appliqués

Gift of Mrs. Frank W. Crocker 1961.714

Costume Society of America

Region I Board Members

President

Jeffrey Butterworth

Vice President

Susan Jerome

Secretary

Jacqueline Field

Carrie Alyea

Joanna Cadorette

Rebecca Fifield

Karen Herbaugh

David Lazaro

Maryann Sadagopan

Past President: Claudia Iannuccilli

Appointed Officers & Committee Chairs

Treasurer

Pat Baker

Newsletter Editor

David Lazaro

Programs

Susan Jerome

Publication Sales

Joan Walther

The Region I Newsletter is published three times a year. The deadline for the next issue is August 15, 2002. Please send exhibit listings, new book notices, professional news, etc., to:

David E. Lazaro

234 Florence Road

Florence, MA 01062

lazaro@historic-

The newsletter editor is seeking volunteers to help with the Region I newsletter. If interested, please contact me at lazaro@historic-

Thank you!

President’s Message

Dear Fellow CSA, Region I Members:

I must begin with offering my thanks to the outgoing members of the Board of Directors:  Barbara Broudo and Cynthia Cooper (Barbara graciously completed Cynthia's term,) Donna Bartsch Locke, who not only served as Region I Newsletter editor, but goes on to bigger and better things as President of the National Board of Directors, and the fabulous Adrienne Saint-Pierre, the best Vice-President I have ever had.  I would also like to thank the Nominating Committee, including Barbara Broudo, Jacqueline Field, and headed by John Burbidge as Tally Chair.  The five candidates were all splendid and I heartily welcome the incoming directors: Carrie Alyea, Joanna Cadorette and Rebecca Fifield.

If you are getting the feeling, from this list of people that it takes a great many to run this organization, even on a regional level, you would be correct.  Why isn't your name among them?....volunteer!  Ned Lazaro needs volunteers to help with this newsletter.  Again it would be a great help if some individuals would take the responsibility for reporting on, and keeping up with, the costume related activities of their areas (ie. Western Massachusetts, RI, etc.)  Another example of need that would bring important balance to the organization is for a non-Board member to serve on one of the various committees that plan and organize regional activities and functions.  Why not co-chair a symposium?  Webster's New World College Dictionary (1999) primarily defines a volunteer as "a person who chooses freely to do or offer something."  The fourth sub-definition has the legal implications, "a person who chooses freely to enter into a transaction with no promise of compensation..."  Luckily, as volunteers for CSA, one is compensated with fraternization with colleagues - an experience of estimable value.

The next Region I event is our Fall Symposium at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell Massachusetts on Saturday, November 16, 2002.  The subject will be costume treasures and problems or questions.  The format may include shorter presentations than the usual twenty to thirty minutes, so if you have ever wanted to present, but balked at the length of time required, this may be your best chance.  The call for papers is in this issue of the Newsletter. 

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President’s message continued…

If you have any ideas about future symposia, or any

suggestions regarding the organization,  please let

one of the Directors know.  Again, this is your organization, but we need your input and participation. 

Have a wonderful Spring and I hope to see you all in Lowell in the Fall.

Sincerely yours,

Jeffrey A. Butterworth

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