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Members and guests only: By Her Own Design curator-led lecture, tour, and lunch by Collections Manager Liz Weisblatt
September 19 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
$30.00
Please join us for the opening event of the 2023-2024 Dames season!
Making Millinery Work: Charting the Successes & Hardships of Entrepreneurial Women in the Nineteenth Century
Given by NSCDA-MA Collections Manager Liz Weisblatt
Expanding upon research from By Her Own Design: Women Milliners of Boston, this lecture will explore millinery work as a source of independence for women in the nineteenth century through primary sources, the stories of women milliners, and the incredible hats they made.
Lecture to be followed by an elegant box lunch and an opportunity to tour the exhibition before it closes on September 22.
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Elizabeth Weisblatt is a dress historian with more than five years of experience working with historical textiles. After receiving her master’s degree in Dress & Textile History from the University of Glasgow, she returned to Boston, MA, sharing her knowledge of dress history through house museums in Beacon Hill. Her focus on social history has allowed her to discover several avenues of interest including stories of the makers of garments and immigrant interaction with new American styles.