weekend in review
Mar. 20th, 2005 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonHit the 1940s fashion exhibit with D., ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geekchick and nminusone. For future reference: the Kennedy Center is much bigger and multileveled than it appears on the outside. Also note: symmetry isn't inherently beautiful and harmonious if it causes you to get lost!
Short version - we missed the lecture part of the tour (which turns out to have been mostly guided tour by curator; a little confusing for me as I associate "lecture" with something you sit down for), but we DID see the exhibit, which was, IMHO, impressive. I'd have been happy enough just to have seen Claire McCardell's revolutionary 1940s swimsuits, but the exhibit also included a Schiaparelli jacket of unusual and attractive construction and the uniforms of the WACs and WAVEs plus some discussion of wartime fabric rationing.
After the exhibit conversation and sandwiches ensued, reaching the conclusions that 1) "The Real World: Philosophers" would be a huge hit, and 2) there is a correlation between explosions and girls in bikinis, involving some law of physics that goes right over my head :P
Got back home and I am curiously tired, probably due in part to the fact that the air pressure/temperature has dropped and it's now storming intermittently.
The rest of the evening promises some reading and possibly more work on the corset - glove needles (hand sewing needle with flat razor tip for sewing through leather) is possibly the best thing I've found to go through multiple layers of PVC.
geekchick and nminusone. For future reference: the Kennedy Center is much bigger and multileveled than it appears on the outside. Also note: symmetry isn't inherently beautiful and harmonious if it causes you to get lost!Short version - we missed the lecture part of the tour (which turns out to have been mostly guided tour by curator; a little confusing for me as I associate "lecture" with something you sit down for), but we DID see the exhibit, which was, IMHO, impressive. I'd have been happy enough just to have seen Claire McCardell's revolutionary 1940s swimsuits, but the exhibit also included a Schiaparelli jacket of unusual and attractive construction and the uniforms of the WACs and WAVEs plus some discussion of wartime fabric rationing.
After the exhibit conversation and sandwiches ensued, reaching the conclusions that 1) "The Real World: Philosophers" would be a huge hit, and 2) there is a correlation between explosions and girls in bikinis, involving some law of physics that goes right over my head :P
Got back home and I am curiously tired, probably due in part to the fact that the air pressure/temperature has dropped and it's now storming intermittently.
The rest of the evening promises some reading and possibly more work on the corset - glove needles (hand sewing needle with flat razor tip for sewing through leather) is possibly the best thing I've found to go through multiple layers of PVC.
Re: whoa!!
Date: 2005-03-21 11:51 pm (UTC)WWII and the need for women in factories really did help pants become more acceptable for women, at least in some situations. I can't help thinking of Katharine Hepburn and her elegant pantsuits :)
If you can't make it down here for this exhibit, all of the garments are on loan from FIT so you might be able to see these next time you're in NYC.