FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH
1:00 - 1:30 pm Workshop and Tour at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
3:00 - 4:00 pm Introductory Roundtable (at Bryn Mawr College, room TBA)
8:00 - 11:00 pm Time Traveler’s Ball, Rhoads Dining Hall, Bryn Mawr College
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH
9:00-10:00 am Coffee Hour, Goodhart Atrium
9:30 am Exhibit opens in Goodhart Music Room
10:00 am - 6:00 pm SUITS Conference in Goodhart Music Room (or register on Zoom)
10:00 am - 10:15 am Opening remarks
10:15 am - 11:45 am Panel 1: Clothing, Women, and the Workforce
Legwork: Pantyhose and the Twentieth Century Professional Woman
Juliana Cirillo - Long Island City, NY
What’s in a Ruff? The Influences of Migration and Women’s Work on Elizabethan Fashion
Sarah Hoskin - Bryn Mawr, PA
Work Zones: Blue Collar
Kasia Ozga - Greensboro, NC
11:45 am - 1:00 pm lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Panel 2: Embodiment in Costuming for Film and Performance
Casteism Costumed: The Moral and Sexual Hypocrisy of the Brahmin Female Body in S Shankar’s “Anniyan”
Sankeerthna Vedamtam - Bryn Mawr, PA
Cosplay, Gender, and Personal Identity
Natalie Nicholson - Corinth, VT
Costuming Livelihoods
Mae Merkle - Philadelphia, PA
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Panel 3: Clothing as Resistance and Persistence
Clothed Citizens: Black Americans use of clothing as rebellion against social and legal inequality during the Antebellum and Postbellum periods
Lauren Karpyn - Newark, DE
Did Women Wear Pants Back Then? Gender Nonconformity in Early New England, and What it Means to Interpret Trans History
Reed Richardson - Bryn Mawr, PA
A Labor of Grief: The Dying Mourning Shawls of Tenancingo, Mexico
Mercedes Muratalla - Denton, TX
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Panel 4: Exhibition Artist's Panel
Kasia Ozga - Greensboro, NC
Mae Merkle - Philadelphia, PA
Reed Richardson - Bryn Mawr, PA
Anniken Bergstrom - Bryn Mawr, PA
Michelle Hunt Souza - Kent, OH
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing remarks