Gallery Talk with Fashion Historian Jennifer Gordon

Sporting Fashion

What better season than summer to be an Outdoor Girl? Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women outfitted themselves for increasingly active lives — in the sun, sand, and surf, on the tennis courts and the baseball fields. Women wanted clothes that were functional without sacrificing beauty or propriety. Join Jennifer Farley Gordon, Ph.D. on a tour of Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls, 1800-1960. The tour will highlight the evolution of summer sportswear worn for women’s leisure activities and sporting pursuits. Dr. Gordon is an independent fashion historian and co-curated the 2011 exhibition Sporting Life at The Museum at FIT.

$5 members; $20 general public, includes exhibition admission