A talk coming up by Susan North in Kingston, Ontario this Thursday night looks fantastic! I am hoping to get over to it and will report back;) Susan North is a V&A Curator and author of the amazing book "Historical Fashion In Detail - The 17th and 18th Centuries" with Avril Hart. I am sure she has many other achievements but this book, recommended reading for Dalhousie Costume Studies, sits in my library and I love it!The Costume Society of Ontario has posted the event info on their events page:
February 19, 2009 – 6:26 pm
Susan North, Curator of Fashion 1550–1800, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, will speak at Chernoff Auditorium, Queen’s University, Kingston, at 7 p.m. Thursday 5 March 2009. Her subject will be “Wearing One’s Art on One’s Sleeve: Iconography and Preservation Issues of an Early 17th Century Jacket.”
There will be a reception (cash bar) afterwards for attendees to meet Susan. Contact for special needs: artcon@queensu.ca. Release came via Queen’s Art Conservation Program, contact lm15@queensu.ca, or artcon@queensu.ca.
(Image Note: Men's 18th Century Coat, designed and constructed by the author Andrea Melvin, please email me if you want to use it).
