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Elizabeth Walton, Commonly Held Misconceptions About Historic Costume

Elizabeth Walton is a graduate of the New York University's Master's degree program in Costume Studies. While in this program she has worked with the collections of The Phoenix Art Museum and The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Fairfield Historical Society. Before this she worked as an Associate Editor and researcher for CNN.com/COLDWAR,  CNN.com/Millenium, and CNN.com/Century.  After working in the collections division of the National Museum of The American Indian she is now a collections manager at LACMA.  For a more detailed resume click here and for a portfolio click here. Her interests focus on many topics and genres relating to social history and costumes and she is currently seeking opportunities to further these interests.  

Contributors

Sara M. Harvey,The Juni-hito Styles of Heian Era Japan 

Sara Harvey is a native Californian studying Costume History at New York University. She is most interested in the study of Heian Japanese clothing and European Renaissance costume. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and would like to blend her love of theatre, interest in cultural anthropology, and period costume knowledge in the fields of film/theatre costume design and writing about traditional costumes. Sara is an avid participant in the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in California and also performs and assists in costuming at Bay Shores Lyric Opera in Capitola, CA.

Jessica Glasscock, Burlesque Costumes of the 1950s

Jessica Glasscock is a freelance writer and costume historian living in New York. Some of her best friends are strippers.

Jessica has recently published her book, Striptease: Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight. If you would like to read more, click here: 

Erica Hoelscher, Splendor and Wit; Costume and Society in the Age of Louis XIV, The Sun King (1654 - 1715)

Erica Hoelscher is a costume designer whose recent design credits include Molière’s The Misanthrope set in period.  Erica received an MFA in costume design from Northwestern University, and is now an associate professor of theatre at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  Erica teaches courses in basic design, costume design, makeup design and execution, wig styling, and costume history.  She is particularly interested in the social and behavioral function of costume from a historical perspective.  Other recent design credits include Macbeth, Don Quixote, the Adventure Begins, Arcadia, and The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Heather A. Vaughan Icon: Tracing the path of the 1950s Shirtwaist Dress

Heather A. Vaughan is a freelance dress and costume historian living on the West Coast. She is currently employed as a research assistant on A Century of Hollywood Costume Design to be published by Regan Books in 2006. She is also co-authoring a chapter in the forthcoming History of 20^th Century Fashion to be published by Greenwood in the Spring of 2007. Heather also serves as Editor of the Costume Society of America’s National E-News publication. In August 2005, she will be giving a lecture on the history and artistry of shoe design in Oakland, California.
Thus far, Heather has assisted with seven museum exhibits related to the history of fashion at four institutions across the United States. She is most proud of her curatorial work at the Phoenix Art Museum on Personality and Style: The Fashion Career of Natacha Rambova (Sept. 2004 to Feb. 2005). For more information on Heather’s career and interests, please visit http://www.geocities.com/haileen77/index.htm.

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