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The Vassar College Costume Collection (VCCC) is a collection of original historic clothing, dating from the 1830s to the present. The mission of the collection is twofold: to provide physical artifacts to support the study of the history of fashion design, and to preserve the history of the college. Each object in the collection can serve as an example to teach about fashion's norms or innovations that developed throughout history, yet each garment also comes to us from Vassar's community and represents Vassar's own past, telling us in turn about the history of women's education and the history of the Hudson Valley.

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