The Roaring 20s and Swinging 60s

Bios
Credits
Cultural Appropriation
Curator Walkthrough
Dreams and Discontent
Educational Material
Enter
Intro
Jazz and Twenties Black Glamour
Mode and Modernity
Music Mania
Obsession with Youth
One Hour Dress
Plus Pattern Project
Process
Timeline
Twenties Nostalgia
Vintage Style

One Hour Dress

Hour Dress

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Intro Twenties Nostalgia Dreams and Discontent Obsession with Youth Music Mania Cultural Appropriation Mode and Modernity

Timeline Curator Walkthrough Jazz and Twenties Black Glamour One Hour Dress Vintage Style, not Vintage Values The Plus Pattern Project Educational Material

Student Bios Credits Process

Join curators Summer Lee and Ellen Greene and event programmers Becca Carr and Kenna Libes for this video about the experience of creating a ‘One Hour Dress.’ Advertising a pattern that could be sewn in one hour was a common marketing tactic during both the 1920s and the 1960s, and we put two patterns to the test in this video as a friendly competition between seamstresses.

Mary Brooks Pickens' The One Hour Dress booklet can be accessed here and the Victoria and Albert Museum's Mary Quant pattern can be found here Thanks to models Christianna Rice (@christiannamonet) and Sierra Neale (@sierrajn3), both MA students in the program.