If you're interested in buying the catalog for the 18th century court costume exhibit discussed below (Fastes de Cour), it's now available at the cheapest price here from Amazon.fr. Yes, the interface is all in French, but the layout/buttons are exactly the same as the English language version, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out -- and you can sign in to your Amazon.com account and it will pull up all your info. (Random site note: adding tags to this post to see if those are useful; if so, I'll eventually go back and tag older entries too.)
If you don't live anywhere near Paris, be depressed with me that you are missing what looks like one of the more fabulous costume exhibits ever: Fastes de Cour: Le Costume de Cour en Europe, 1650-1800, currently on exhibit at the Chateau de Versailles. The website is fabulous, I've just ordered the catalogue, but I am still depressed. I am even more depressed to miss the symposium in early June. Do check out the website. Make sure you zoom the pictures. Le sigh.
Chic Chicago exhibit at the Chicago History Museum
I've posted before about the Chic Chicago exhibit. This time, I've found that the Chicago History Museum's website for the exhibit has some great multimedia additions -- a Flickr set of high res images of costumes from the exhibit, as well as video profiles/interviews with curators as well as a behind the scenes on putting together the exhibit. More museums should do this kind of thing!
[DAY-mo-day] adjective: old fashioned, out of style, unfashionable [from French, the past participle of démoder "to go out of fashion," from mode "fashion"].
