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Vassar College Costume Collection
Welcome to our collection of authentic historic clothing from the nineteenth century to today. Our digitization project is a work in progress, so please bear with us, and please share your feedback. You can read more on our About page. Thanks for visiting!
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Featured Items
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Textile Stabilization Workshop with Colleen Callahan, part of the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop. ...more
Postcard for For Better and For Worse
A postcard created for publicity of the exhibition "For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar." The postcard features an image of MaryLee Hartzell (Vassar Class of… ...more
Cream Satin and Black Velvet Dress
Cream Satin top and Black Velvet Skirt, Empire waist w/ puff sleeves. Pleats on top Center Front and Center Back, with rouching on arms eye ...more
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Textile Stabilization Workshop with Colleen Callahan, part of the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop. ...more
Photographs of wedding dresses of Leontine McPhillips, Mary Lee Hartzell, and Anna Langdell
Photographs of wedding dresses of Leontine McPhillips, Mary Lee Hartzell, and Anna Langdell, for wedding wear exhibition For Better and For Worse ...more
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Textile Stabilization Workshop with Colleen Callahan, part of the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop. ...more
Black two piece dress with lace
Black silk bodice and skirt with wool trim and lace with embroidery on bodice. The lace is tan with pink and green embroidery, and sections of it are underlaid with light green silk. The… ...more
Featured Exhibit
For Better and For Worse
For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar May 23-June 9, 2013 at the Palmer Gallery, Main Building, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) In 2007, Vassar received a donation of four wedding dresses from the same Vassar family—three generations of dresses. The exhibition includes these four dresses,plus a fifth dress on loan to represent the fourth generation, as well as other wedding wear and photographs collected over the years. Explore changing views of marriage over the last 160 years, including current views on marriage equality. Continue through the ... Continue Reading.
Recent Items
Black two piece dress with lace
Cream Satin and Black Velvet Dress
Beige Vented Bucket Hat
Black Go Go Rain Bucket Hat
Red Straw Rumba Fedora
