I’m coming to Costume College! (for the last time)
If you’re going to Costume College 2019, and have read your class schedule in detail, you may have realised that I’m teaching (yay!), but also wondered why I haven’t mentioned it publicly, like I have in previous years. Yes, I’ll be at Costume College, and I’m very excited to see everyone, and to be teaching the following class: Body Ideals & Corsetry: 1900-1930 11-1 on Friday (not 3-5 as shown in the book) (and am very sad they didn’t pick the other class I offered them, on the history of the suffrage movement across the world, in all its form, and its complicated relationship with fashion, because that was going to be a great class, but ah well, more time to socialise and go to other people’s awesome classes). But going this year is also very bittersweet. Unless there is a huge (and completely unexpected and unpredicted) alteration in the global situation, it will be my last Costume College ever. Shortly after booking my tickets and registering for CoCo I realised how bad the climate …
