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