Gary Shteyngart's "Behold My Suit!" is such a delightful essay on the joy of wearing a perfectly tailored bespoke suit. In Beau Brummell is not treated kindly! "www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03...
Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) and I are pleased to announce a collection of articles on "The Salon and the Senses in 18th-century France" we edited for Aphra Behn Online. #Rutgers digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Well done, Rutgers women and gender historians! #Rutgers
The final slide in today's lecture in History 510:232, "Fashion and Design in European History: Vivienne Westwood, Queen of Punk, "You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes." #Rutgers
Congrats on your new book. It looks fascinating. I hope it is out in time to assign a chapter or two to students in spring 2025.
Announcing: the Bridges Project brought to you by the Western Society for French History! Connect with "alt-ac" history PhDs! Learn how to support grad students on non-TT paths! Find out how other unis successfully support doctoral students! And more! A must-read for faculty www.wsfh.org/bridges
We discussed fashion, music, and dance in the "Swinging Sixties" in my Fashion History class today. Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Green dancing in 1962. This photo always makes me joyous! #Rutgers
1) An edited collection of articles on "The Salon and the Senses in 18th-century France" to be published in Aphra Behn Online in Dec 2024.
2) A new project focusing on commercial fashion schools like the Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers (1937-1996) in NYC.
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in Princeton, celebrating the legacy of Natalie Zemon Davis, with @monicamedhist.bsky.social @paulecohen.bsky.social and others not yet on bluesky #earlymodern